Word: slide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today "Sam" White keeps in trim by playing golf, a game in which he is not required to slide in the mud on his face. An important executive in a great corporation, he was most circumspect in commenting further on the new fumble rule. Said he: "Admittedly it will help to establish more clearly the superiority of the stronger team insofar as it removes the possibility of scoring through flukes or breaks of that kind. True enough, such cases are rare but important games and even championships have been decided in that...
...small that he had to have some one carry his gear to the top of the slide for him, Stanley Zarborski, 9, of Ironwood, Mich., jumped and floated through the air 72 feet, and later 62 feet, to win a free-for-all ski tournament at Racine, Wis., last week...
Heading south, last fortnight, President-Reject Alfred Emanuel Smith paused at Savannah, Ga., to slide down a brass pole and thereby amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites...
...hydroairplane has a broad V-shaped bottom which flattens toward the stern, a Sea Sled inverts the V, also flattens toward the stern. Both are built to slide along the surface rather t h a n t o p l o u g h t h r o u g h t h e w a t er. *A name derived from electric launch comp a n y, h o l d i n g c o m p a n y o f E l c o
...accommodations for 14 guests, its lockers holding food enough for eight months at sea, its living room, smoking room, dining room, its owner's private gymnasium, lounge room, and dressing room, its cold storage plant, its shining mahogany and brass, was standing at the head of a slide in Manhattan, worth $625,000. Mrs. Fleishmann christened...