Word: snubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept the spark of in-line design firing, are now ready to go places. Already powered by Allison V-12's is the Army's twin-motored fighter, the Airacuda. More recently, the 1,000-horsepower Allison was built into a modification of the Army's snub-nosed Curtiss P-36. The ship has a speed of 280 miles an hour with a 1,100-horsepower radial. Powered with an Allison engine with 100 less horsepower, the lancelike P37 gained 75 m.p.h...
...aplomb of His Majesty King Ananda Mahidol of Siam, aged 13, was first manifest two years ago when the snub-nosed, sloe-eyed little monarch requested a franc from a cameraman for chocolate before he would pose at his private school in Switzerland. The photographer demurred: "Chocolate might give Your Majesty a stomach ache." To which King Ananda majestically replied: "I never permit myself to become stomach-ached." The cameraman paid...
...outset, Generalissimo Francisco Franco received enough planes from Germany and Italy to down enemy aviation, to facilitate his 3½-months' drive to Madrid. Then the aerial tide turned. In October and November 1936, Russian planes of the American Boeing type- nicknamed "chatos" (snub-nosed) by Madrilenians-had arrived in such numbers that in the following two months Leftists eliminated the fierce aerial bombing of Madrid, stopped two strong Rightist offensives. Then early this year, Franco's augmented air force blasted a bloody path for his march to the sea, splitting Leftist territory in two this spring...
...Churchill, who thus might have been expected to snub Herr Henlein last week, actually invited this Hitler stooge to his London flat for a three-hour conference at which was present the Liberal Opposition Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair. This was in the early afternoon, and with much frantic telephoning a late tea party for Herr Henlein was arranged by Laborite Harold Nicolson, M. P. Leftist Nicolson persuaded to take tea with Stooge Henlein three middleweight British Parliamentary figures notable up to now for their last-ditch championship of Anthony Eden at the time he was ousted: Lieut. Commander Reginald Fletcher...
Stolen Heaven (Paramount) is the first picture in which snub-nosed Olympe (pronounced "oh lamp") Bradna, chubby faced Parisian brunette, has been starred. In preparation for this great event, Paramount floated the innocent fiction that Olympe had never been kissed. Alleged reason: Olympe is 17 and her mother will not leave her alone with a man until she is 18. To this baseless canard, Olympe last week chirped an exception. In a film called College Holiday (TIME, Jan. 4, 1937) she had been kissed in a purely businesslike way by a juvenile named Louis Da Pron. About her private life...