Word: tail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Journalist Von Wiegand awoke towards daylight and ran out on the navigating bridge in his pajamas. He had "sensed immediately a thrill in the air." The ship was making 105 m.p.h. with the boost from a tail wind...
Refuse which they had to drop out of the ship caught and accumulated on the tail, however. Came an hour when the Angeleno wabbled so badly she could not stay under her refueling plane (piloted by Paul Whittier, local millionaire). The "tough hombres" descended, went to a hospital, slept. When they awoke, bedside microphones were ready to let them talk to their public...
...duralumin fuselage shaped like a dirigible, hermetically sealed. Inside would be a compressor which would supply air at sea level pressure and warm it for the pilot and the motor (which would be within the fuselage). Outside would be the propeller, wings resembling those of a flying fish, and tail fins. Landing wheels would be retracted into the body...
...editor. Vandenberg hung up his hat in the editor's office, brushed his cigar ashes in the editor's tray and announced himself as the new boss. The owner let him stay as a penalty for his impertinence; but in about three jerks of a lamb's tail he had the weakling Herald on a money-making basis...
...Tail stiffening like a hoe handle, brown eyes rolling madly, Nelly charged on Wallace, gored him deeply. At the same time showers of buckshot from the guns of shouting farmers added to Wallace's misery, roused his temper. Quickly he raked Nelly's ribs, broke her neck, left her to die, loped across the pasture into a cottage garden. There the Lyme Regis postman, armed with a revolver, stalked the lion through the hollyhocks, shot him dead...