Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fool Proof. Conspicuous among the hundreds of planes at the National Aeronautical Exposition at Mines Field, Los Angeles, was a stubby little contraption which the curious observed had no horizontal stabilizer, but a "stagger" so pronounced that the lower wing itself was almost in the position of a stabilizer. It also had the eccentricity of a decolage, or angle of the lower wing in relation to 'the upper wing, and a pilot's seat placed back against the tail. Questions addressed to a nervous, alert, bearded little man, seldom far away, brought vociferous response supplemented by rapid curves and graphs...
Alias the Deacon (Jean Hersholt). As in the play of the same name, the hero's occupation is fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor. An angel-faced cardsharp, he blandly deals his opponents four nines, a flush, a straight, a full house, only to stagger the crowd by slapping down a royal straight flush for his own account, thus taking the largest poker pot ever staked in that town. With the proceeds he raises a mortgage, facilitates a wedding, stores up treasure in Heaven. Then he ambles into a box car and shuffles off to other...
Arrived at Scrobesti, King Ferdinand took action in a manner absolutely to stagger Bucharest. He ordered the Minister of the Royal Household to present himself suddenly at a Cabinet meeting and demand the resignation of Premier Averescu. The order was obeyed. General Averescu picked up a sheet of notepaper from the table before him, dipped pen in ink, wrote out and signed his resignation. His startled ministers did likewise. Then came the real bombshell. Bland, the royal emissary announced that His Majesty had called to the Premiership Prince Babu Stirbey...
...They suck lemons, swallow dry toast, regird their loins and start jog-jog-jogging again. Only the fools sprint. It is 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to Manhattan, where a $25,000 prize, fat vaudeville contracts and the plaudits of a multitude await the first super-marathoner to stagger across the finish line within 100 days of the starting pistol crack...
...Shanghai a U. S. consulting engineer, W. H. Greenwood, 66, was set upon in the Chinese city by coolies who thought it good sport to flail his posteriors, raise welts upon his face, and knock out several of his teeth. When they released Mr. Greenwood, he was able to stagger into the refuge of the international city. ¶ Foreign shipping on the Yangtze River was repeatedly potshot by irresponsible Chinese artillery on shore, last week, causing the U. S. S. Preble and Cincinnati to return this fire several times with four-inch and six-inch guns. When similarly attacked...