Word: shoestringer
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Considered by many the most important advance in aerial transportation since the Wright biplane, the Douglas DC2 bears the name of a mild-mannered, retiring Californian named Donald Wills Douglas. Probably the strangest thing about Donald Douglas is that he seems always to have made money building airplanes. A member...
Out of this long experience Henry Fletcher emerged with inscrutability, good humor, patience and a shrewd tongue. He could say sharp, cutting things when he wanted to. To a U. S.-hating Chilean who once remarked that he would not buy even a shoestring made in the U. S., Diplomat...
Born in 1878 when the new Japan was in its infancy, Seiji Noma, whose father had been of the samurai, was rooted in the feudal past. His family was poor but proud. At school he was an idle, mischief-making but lusty youth, excelling in oratory and fencing. Despite early...
While Cornell ran back a Syracuse punt to the west side of the field, the Cornell right end crept over to the opposite side and lay down, unobserved by Syracuse- the old, old "shoestring"' play. In a flash Cornell snapped a forward pass to the end who trotted over...
In the current revival of cinemas with music, Warner Brothers, who claim that they started the cycle with 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933, favor backstage romances, staged with super-Ziegfeldian extravagance. Samuel Goldwyn surrounds Eddie Cantor with girls and animals. Universal, sceptical of the new vogue, was last...