Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stella Australis been equipped with radiotelephone, Lieutenant Ulm would have radioed neither PAN nor SOS, but MAYDAY, phonetic version of the French m'aider, distress signal word prescribed for radiotelephony by the International Radio Regulations...
Baiata and his cronies were on the point of sealing the deal with the Indianapolis bank?the signal for the looting to start?when they were rounded up and Lincoln Life remained unravished. Last week it was quietly sold to rock-sound Illinois Bankers Life Assurance...
...Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able U. S. showmen, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, to re-do the whole job in three weeks...
...bald Statesman Theunis, the official interpreter at the Cannes Conference, M. Georges J. Mathieu, wrote: "I noticed a very remarkable difference between M. Theunis' anger and M. Jaspar's. When M. Theunis was getting angry he used to show a very conspicuous danger signal: the skin on top of his head became bright red. While M. Jaspar, next to him, showed it in his face...
...Haven, Conn. November 23--Prospects of a wet, badly sliced field greeted the Harvard team when it arrived ni New Haven today. A steady drizzle has been falling all afternoon and the turf received a thorough soaking when it was uncovered for signal practice...