Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such eminent film celebrities such as George Bancroft, Kay Francis, and Clive Brook are gathered together for a movie, one is led to expect some rather entertaining fireworks. As a matter of fact, "Scandal Sheet", now at the University, is a good deal like the old parable of the sky-rocket...
...Woman, Down out of the sky into Akron one day last week came a young woman with two frozen toes, crackling ears and blood in her mouth. She was Miss Frankie Renner, 30, secretary-treasurer of Robbins Flying Service and of Aviation College Inc. Her physical condition did not make her unhappy for it was merely the result of climbing in a Waco biplane to an apparent altitude of 33,000 ft.?perhaps 3,000 ft. higher than Ruth Nichols' climb last fortnight, and a new women's record...
...tragedy of a village life composed, like all life, of many inter flowing elements that find artistic expression in character, scene, and action. Modestly he wonders whether perhaps he has "only painted a landscape and some people--men and women reading the earth under the quandary of the sky." Out of the compromise that must always result between the intention to portray life and achieving that portrayal arises the village of Midland and its inhabitants. Ab Carver with his big laughter, the blind Wilbur Allen, and Bruce Durken who, true to melodramatic tradition died in the final burning...
Over Manhattan and Brooklyn one night last week a strange new beam of light appeared in place of an old one which had vanished. The new one: an advertising searchlight designed by one Alfred Gauthier, to etch letters and legends in the sky even when there are no clouds to provide a background. The old one: the revolving beacon atop Hotel St. George in Brooklyn, erected three years ago by Sperry Gyroscope Co. to guide aviators and to advertise the hotel. Recently the Department of Commerce ruled that only beacons actually on an established airway might use white lights...
Altitude. A scarlet-and-cream Lockheed-Vega, with handsome Socialite Ruth Nichols at the controls, roared into the sky over Manhattan, settled into a steady climb of nearly an hour's duration. A thermometer on the wing stopped registering at 45° below zero. A high west wind blew the ship backwards, nearly five miles out to sea. Miss Nichols, breathing oxygen that nearly froze her tongue, forced the ship higher and higher until fuel was exhausted, descended with an apparent altitude record for women (subject to confirmation) of more than 30,000 ft. Existing record...