Word: scooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wireless, however, reported her nosing smoothly southward -off Cape Charles, Savannah, Jacksonville, Daytona. Night watchers at Nassau, British Bahamas, thought that they saw her bulk. Then she was a little south of Cuba, then off Jamaica. The trade winds fanned her ahead at a 90 m. p. h. scoot, and at last she, the airship Los Angeles, was at her goal, France Field, Panama Canal Zone. Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl had put his airboat across 2,265 miles in 40 hours, her longest non-stop flight since she left Germany (TIME...
...Spirit of St. Louis upwards and sideways, seeking an opening in the mists and mountain peaks. He found a rift and streaked out over the Caribbean. For 100 miles seeing no land the flyer contemplated the two tinges of blue sky and bluer sea. Once he dipped to scoot cheerily close to the steamer Amsterdam. Once he scuttled through a sudden rain squall. Land notched the horizon far ahead. From there he flew over nearly nine hundred miles of "Islands in the Lesser Antilles. At St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands he got down. Speeches. When he left the following...
...revolutionist, remember his music for its brutality, its stark rhythms. Last week he made his U. S. debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra-and a great audience was surprised.* They had expected a bulky, grim-jawed man with personality to match. Instead they saw a frail little person scoot shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear him play a new concerto which had disturbed and pleased the International Festival for Contemporary Music last June in Frankfurt. But when Conductor...
...Captain W. P. Ellison '27, the following fourteen letter men of the past season will be present and will receive gold hockey pucks, E. C. Clark '27, J. B. Durant '27, C. D. Coady '27, C. S. Gross '27, Nathaniel Hamlen '27, C. I. Wylde '27, R. S. Scoot '27, Isadore Zarakov '27, Joseph Morrill '28, F. W. Adams '28, Willard Howard '28, J. P. Chase '28, John Tudor '29, and M. N. Stanley...
...Chicago Symphony. A few came early and a few came late but the great body of them, in the Chicago manner, arrived just on the minute, blocked the great doors of Orchestra Hall. All but a few most improper people were in time to see a trim little man scoot out alone, take a score of hurried, jerky bows and turn his back on them. Weber's Euryanthe overture was soon commemorating the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. Conductor Frederick Stock had chosen it, played it easily, precisely, as he had played it many times before...