Word: skidding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police were quick. Riot calls brought them from all six North Ireland counties as fast as careening trucks could skid over the roads. As in Dublin in 1916, the rioters started sniping from the rooftops. Belfast police wasted no time, replied with revolvers & rifles. In a few hours the Dublin comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew...
Last week Pan American Airways announced perfection of a visual "synchronizer" developed by George Kraigher, chief pilot on the western division. It is based on the principle by which a wagon wheel in a motion picture appears to skid. It seems to skid because the spokes of the wheel accidentally become synchronized with the camera shutter...
...additional gas tank in the rear cockpit where Publisher Macfadden was wont to ride about the U. S. Taking off from Newark Airport late at night, Pilot Reichers roared to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in 6 hr. 19 min. As he taxied up the field, the plane's tail skid threw a rock through the fuselage, injuring the stabilizer controls. Quickly repairing the damage, he sped off for Paris via Dublin. When finally forced down by a cracked wing and fuel shortage, Pilot Reichers was within 150 mi. of his scheduled stop, 51 mi. from land...
...rapidly popularizing the kind of novels that Mrs. Horatio Alger, had she existed, would probably have longed to write. If Horatio's city boys were exemplary, the city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer her novels into waters of some depth. She is serious, sincere, sympathetic...
Threading his way through assembled chorus girls, stage men ropes and trunks, he then went on in the famous telephone skid. Coming on stage he signed, "The trouble with a show's running a long time is that people social all the original stuff, so that new joke material has to be thought up all the time. If is the same way with the music, only we can't change that although the radios make everyone familiar with the tunes in the show long before people ever get to see it." Changing the subject suddenly he said. "You know there...