Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jumps. H. E. ("Spud") Manning hugged a 25-lb. sack of flour in his arms when he baled out at 14,000 ft. in one of his famed delayed-opening parachute jumps. His tail of flour against the pale blue sky made him look like a comet's ghost as he plummeted down a full two miles. Not until he was within 1,000 ft. of the ground did he jerk his rip cord, break his 147-111.p.h. fall, soar down to a perfect two-leg landing in midfield...
...small, tight-lipped Senator Morris Sheppard, whose proudest boast is that he helped write the 18th Amendment, boasted proudly: "There's as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment as there is for a humming bird to fly to Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail." Last week humming bird and Washington Monument were well on their way to Mars when Senator Sheppard's own mammoth Texas became the 23rd consecutive State to plump for Repeal. In a light vote, due to public apathy and a $1.75 poll tax, the 21st Amendment was ratified...
...week 30,000 trotting fans crowded Goshen's green valley, its dusty Main Street. Eastern newspapers sent their crack sports writers to cover it. A trotting horse is trained not to break into a gallop. Pulling the little low-hung sulky with the driver perched nearly under his tail, he must not stretch out to pull himself along, must drive his legs rhythmically down and back. He is rarely above or below form, cannot win on pure gameness. If he is fastest by the clock he usually wins. Hence last week the experts figured the favorite Mary Reynolds...
...first All-Union Aviation Festival last week. A small crowd of 10,000 spectators trooped out to Moscow's Octobrisky Airport, impassively watched the nation's largest airplane, the giant ANT-14, waddle across the field, lift its saurian tail, lumber aloft. Suddenly in a spatter of color the world's record for mass parachute jumping was broken.* Thirty-six graduates of the Soviet parachute school, some of them women, issued from the side door of the ANT-14 like bees from a hive. Ten others leaped from a bomber. Each 'chute was red. white...
...through Gulick's book, and walked in a shining white cloth over the Athenian hills one crystal spring morning down to the blue-girt Piraeus. Five o'clock that morning through the windows of the Waldorf he had seen dawn steal down Massachusetts Avenue like a great gray cat, tail between its legs...