Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week newsmen stood behind protecting steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...
Farther down the hall, guarded from the main corridor by two secretarial offices, is a flaming lacquer-red door. When this door is thrown open, the scene is like the bursting of a rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls, silks, rare carvings, vases, a golden Buddha. The walls are papered with golden Chinese tea-paper. On the floor is a great rug of gold, red & black with a geometric pseudo-oriental pattern - designed by Publisher Howard and made in China to his order. The furniture is of lacquer...
...eminent film celebrities such as George Bancroft, Kay Francis, and Clive Brook are gathered together for a movie, one is led to expect some rather entertaining fireworks. As a matter of fact, "Scandal Sheet", now at the University, is a good deal like the old parable of the sky-rocket...
...ROCKET TO THE MOON?Vernesque romance of stellar exploration, vividly imagined...
...says: "The expression is. . . ." The expression is, then, that a hitherto unnoticed swan was discovered in Manhattan's Central Park near the place and time Dorothy Arnold (famed lost girl) disappeared; that the stars, in stead of being inconceivably far away and wandering individually are probably within rocket-shot and set in a revolving shell (Ptolemaic astronomy;. Says Fort: ''Of course the stars are near. Who, but a few old fossils, ever thought otherwise? . . . All these notions . . . were matters of common knowledge, away back in the times of ancient Greece." Fort thinks that the earth is practically...