Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilot de la Cierva was never hurt. In 1928, when he flew the English Channel, he won recognition. From then on, England was autogiro headquarters. English capital financed the Cierva Autogiro Co. Inventor de la Cierva, Royalist son of King Alfonso's Minister of War, was glad to stay away from Spain after King Alfonso was dethroned. Except for an occasional spree with his four children, he devoted himself entirely to aviation, worked out two great improvements of his original autogiro design. One was the elimination of wings and other airplane control surfaces, making the giro controlled directly...
...years ago, had to do no more than stand still while his skis carried him down the slide once or twice to fulfill his function as main attraction of the show whose clientele was made up mostly of skiing sophisticates. Indirect effect of Herr Schneider's three-week stay in the U. S., before going back to St. Anton for the start of the semester, was to aggravate New York's skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants planned to turn his baseball park into a wintersports paradise by building...
...Edward goes to Marlborough House, leaving at 11:24 p.m. while the Duke & Duchess stay until 12:15 a. m. As they leave the Duke is rumored certain to be King Albert I or King George VI (depending on which name he prefers to use) within a few hours or days, and at 1:31 a. m. King Edward VIII shoots out of Buckingham Palace, driving at terrific speed to his snuggery. Lights out at 2:13 a. m. The daily Court Circular, which is supposed to chronicle all important movements of members of the Royal Family, omits...
...decided to carry on anyhow with a cooperative paper. Forty strong they combed Vancouver for funds, credit, advertising, circulation. Resulting enterprise was christened the News-Herald. It started life with 10,000 sympathetic but skeptical readers who thought the paper could not last but wanted to help its newsmen stay off Vancouver's breadlines as long as possible...
...that moving pictures are the universal diversion of the American people, excepting not even fishing, novel reading, or golf, the function of the cinema critic assumes a peculiar importance. There is no denying the fact that the audience is the best critic, and sometimes it can stay away most expressively, but it lacks the most valuable asset of the professional and individual critic in that it cannot be constructive...