Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a bright British shilling landed in the tills of Albert Hall last week. Londoners who gathered there got more than their shilling's worth of fine music by a full, tail-coated orchestra, of plain & fancy singing by sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, coloratura-mezzo-sopranos, baritones, bassos. They also got, between numbers, a good view of what the concert's impresario, Henry Ford, had cannily got them there to see-his new "midget" automobile to compete with the little Austin and Morris...
...Punch & Judy theatres were set up by tail-coated, gold-buttoned lackeys. The contestants appeared: a M. Jane, a M. Robert Désarthis. M. Jane, a modernist, introduced into his performance such persons as Charlie Chaplin and Bicot, the French cinema comedian. MM. les Sénateurs and their children would have none of him. Puppeteer Désarthis, an entrepreneur who had already had many a successful season farther south in the Pare de Montsouris, triumphed...
...younger men with cash, rather than honor older ones with kudos. Last week the $1,000 went to Carl Caskey Speidel, 38, associate professor of anatomy at the University of Virginia. He won it for inventing a way of seeing nerves grow in a live tadpole's tail. He clamped an embryonic frog under his microscope and indirectly illuminated the tail by a method called "dark field lighting." Thus over periods of weeks he was able to see that nerves branch out from the spinal cord and spread, like the roots and branches of a plant, into all parts...
...Uruguayan editors U. S. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn also seemed last week to have horns, a tail. His diabolic act was to have testified before the U. S. Senate Finance Committee that "in the case of Germany there are hardly any [foreign bonds] in default. In the case of South America and Central America, unfortunately, the great majority are in default...
With a cargo of 1,500 lb., the tail end of the eastbound Christmas mail, Pilot Jimmy Johnson climbed out of Bellefonte, Pa., en route from Cleveland. About 14,000 ft. over Allport, Pa., the left wing of his Carrier Pigeon gave way, banged back against the fuselage, knocked the instrument board loose. Caught by the wind the instrument board was blown against Pilot Johnson's head, knocking him unconscious. At about 500 ft. Pilot Johnson regained sufficient sense to bail out, pull open his 'chute. Pilot: safe. Plane: wrecked. Mail: undamaged save for a few torn wrappings...