Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give up the trade of horse racing, he takes up the hardly more stable trade of singing in night clubs. Sing You Sinners is thus no preachment for the typically American virtues, but it is tolerable comedy, jigging playfully from farce to melodrama like a kite with no tail...
...than any professional. Once holder of the world landplane speed record, he has set marks round-the-world, from New York to Paris, Miami to New York, Chicago to Los Angeles, U. S. coast-to-coast. Last week, with no more to urge him on than a seven-mile tail wind and the desire to try out a new type of oxygen mask, Flier Hughes with three companions took off from Glendale, Calif, in the same 7 ½-ton Lockheed 14-II transport plane that carried him around the top of the world. He soared into the substratosphere, landed...
...five-hour tussle ensued, the marlin's sharp dorsal fin and sickle tail slicing the ocean swells as he fought on the surface, his great cobalt-&-silver length breaching into the air five or six times as he "walked on his tail" to shake the hook...
...began the laborious job of "pumping" the dying fish to the top, when violent thrashing on their line and clouds of blood deep in the water told them that something else was after their fish-sharks! By the time they raised the marlin and got a rope around its tail, its belly and sides were slashed away to the backbone. The head and midsection broke off, slid back into the depths...
...they pulled in was the tail-section, up to the ventral rudder fins, of a blue marlin which would easily have broken all northern-water records...