Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother. As a social document But for the Grace of God has unquestionable authenticity. As a play it lacks dramaturgic heights and depths, although there are several memorable individual scenes. Example : the one in which the child workers, panic-stricken when one of them gets caught in a machine, storm the locked fire exits...
Presently the weather grew thick. Pilot Lewis radioed ahead for instructions, was told to come in on the Saugus radio beam. Pilot Lewis flew on through a heavy snow storm, gradually "letting down" from 7,000 ft. At 11:05 he radioed: "Coming down to localizer [beam] at field." He was then some ten miles from Burbank and only ten from the spot where a United Airliner smashed fortnight ago with death to twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). At that point he got off the beam, began circling to pick it up. Suddenly, out of the haze loomed a mountain...
...loop also receives the regular beam, thus gives the pilot a choice of two navigational methods. Offering it free to any airline, TWA cautioned that its new loop is not infallible under all conditions. Any radio, for example, may go dead in the midst of a severe thunder & lightning storm...
Elinor was pleased to discover that there was something about her that men liked. It might have been her figure, with its 18-in. waist. "Whatever it was," says she, "I became a sort of storm centre wherever I went." After one countryhouse ball, four of her suitors after quarreling over her jumped in the lake in full evening dress, then returned to the house and took baths in their host's best champagne. When news of this episode reached one Clayton Glyn, an eligible socialite old bachelor, he made up his mind that Elinor was the girl...
...newspaper serial, made such a hit that it was published as a book. A love-starved public called for more. By 1917 a popular edition of Elinor Glyn's books sold a million copies. Her most famed tale. Three Weeks (1907), which she wrote in six, raised a storm in pulpit and press, was widely condemned as wicked. But most of its critics, says Elinor Glyn, never read the book, consequently did not realize its moral message. She gave one such critic, a Scottish professor of the History of Religions, a copy of Three Weeks to read, found...