Word: shroud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure of fair skies to receive him. but also that no layer of clouds shall blind his descent. Now the great yellow cotton bag, of 14,000 cu. ft. capacity, is laid carer fully out on the field by 100 workmen, sweating under a blazing sun. The shroud lines which support the spherical aluminum gondola are straightened out with meticulous care. In the cool of night hydrogen is fed from cylinders into the envelope. In less than an hour the inflation is finished. The bag is one-fourth inflated, bulges at the top like a mushroom...
...meet to remove a shroud and don the garments of life and of hope. We meet to fulfill an appointment with Destiny. ... We must by a major operation remove from the body of our nation the dead flesh and decayed bones resulting from twelve years of Republican quackery." These were the words of Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky "keynoting" to the Democratic National Convention in the Chicago Stadium last week. The ideas behind them?the real voice?belonged 'to Franklin Delano Roosevelt who had picked the Kentucky Senator as the convention's temporary chairman and had previewed his speech...
...would be deputized to judge the whole Irish race. A large court he will need; several years ago it was calculated there were 100 million persons of Irish blood in the world. St. Patrick died March 17, 493, in Saul, County Down and his corpse was wrapped in a shroud woven by St. Bridgid...
...Wrapped in a silken shroud the body was taken in an ambulance1 to the Elysee where, on the second floor, embalmers went to work...
...everybody was not yet all right. Sanderson, his shroud line caught in the wrecked plane, dropped 1,000 ft. before he struggled loose. Brice was momentarily stunned, said later he was only dimly aware of flinging himself from his plane and jerking open his parachute. Both landed safely. The planes injured no one: Sanderson's landed in a vacant lot, Brice's on the cornice of a public school building, beyond which several children were playing...