Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airman William Boeing's Porter's Mite, the handsome bay colt who outshone all his contemporaries in the classic Belmont Futurity last autumn. Almost as popular was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Impound, son of famed Sun Beau, who beat Porter's Mite in a short handicap race at Santa Anita two weeks before. The twelve others, proudly prancing to the starting line, were expected to fight it out for third place...
Married. Erskine Caldwell, 35, once-divorced novelist and short story writer (Tobacco Road); and Margaret Bourke-White, 31, once-divorced artist-photographer; in Silver City, Nev. Last November she declared: "I will not marry him no matter how many reporters want...
When weatherbeaten Carl Cover, Doug las vice president and boss test pilot, "poured the coal" to the DC-5's two 750-horsepower Pratt & Whitney Hornets, the new ship, designed primarily for operation out of short fields on feeder lines, whipped off the field like a barnstormer's pasture-hopper. In the air it showed a high speed of 248 miles an hour, a cruising speed of 203, far better than the conservative Douglas performance estimates. Pleased was Pilot Cover (who is in charge of sales) with other features of the ship; with no wing below them passengers...
Under the joint direction of Nadia Boulanger and G. Wallace Woodworth, the concert will help to establish a fund for the presentation of a scholarship to some promising young composer, Nadia Boulanger is the sister of the composer whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1918, and in whose memory the scholarship is to be given...
...Paderewski's political adventures had left him weary, disappointed and short of cash. For several years he remained a recluse, remembered by the public only for an occasional smouldering outburst on the state of affairs in his native Poland. He had not touched the piano for four years. Rumors spread that the great Paderewski had forgotten how to play. But in 1922, his red-gold hair now silver, Paderewski staged a comeback, proved that he was still the only living virtuoso who could gross half a million dollars on a U. S. concert tour...