Word: sendoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the start Their Majesties and the Prince of Wales visited Mildenhall to give the flyers a royal sendoff. Queen Mary set foot in a plane for the first time when she inspected the U. S.-built Douglas entered by Royal Dutch Airlines (K. L. M.). Wales showed greatest interest in a small U. S.-built Monocoupe entered by John Polando and John H. ("Utica Jack") Wright. From Roscoe Turner the Prince received a model of the Boeing 247-0 on which the U. S. pinned its highest hopes for victory...
...more sense than to try to make a living at it. While teaching at the University of Denver she learned how to keep bees, owned and managed a profitable Iowa apiary for six years. H. L. Mencken bought her early stories for Smart Set, gave her a good sendoff. Grey-haired, robust, 42, she is married to a fellow lowan named Ferner Nuhn, shuttles back & forth between East & West but still writes about home...
When a minister in Southbury, Conn, married for the third time, his neighbors recalled that "we got a pretty good cowthump out of that." Throughout New England the noisy bridal serenade is a nourishing practice, going by such names as horning, shivaree, skimmelton, skimmington, warming, housewarming, sendoff, rouser, jamboree, waking-up, bellin', tin pan shower, callithumpian, callathumpin'. callathump and cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch...