Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banged and buffeted by storms that stood her on end and ripped her tail, the British dirigible R-100 last week completed, twelve hours later than expected, her long-deferred flight from Cardington, England to St. Hubert Airport, Montreal. Largest lighter-than-air craft in the world, fourth to fly the Atlantic, the R-100 made the crossing in 78 hr. 49 min.- She carried 37 officers & crew, seven passengers, including her designer, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney...
...catch horses in action, or how I get my models for my drawings and paintings. I've never sketched from life and never watched any animals with intentions of sketching it. And to the people who ask I say that I get my models through my tail bone, and from the many connections it got with the cantle-board of my saddle." He claims never to have had a lesson, except for a few months' instruction late in his career at the University of California...
...Manhattan last week, one Charles Bronowitz, longshoreman, had some drinks, caught a cat by the tail, swung it around his head a dozen times, let it fly, knocking down a woman. His sentence: 15 days in gaol...
...largest single canvas in the world-6,400 sq. ft. in area, almost three times the size of Tintoretto's "Paradise" walls in the Palace of the Doges.* Pale monumental figures float upon it among brilliant clouds and stars. while a vivid comet's tail streaks across from projection box to screen. Artist Kent, assisted by Jo Mielziner and ten others, worked five months on the canvas...
...Political punsters and cartoonists opened their birdbooks to amplify their knowledge of the bird (Philohela Minor) whose name Commissioner Woodcock bears. An upland species of snipe, highly prized by sportsmen and epicures, the woodcock has a long, long bill and practically no tail at all. Its plumage is heavily mottled- brown, black, buff, grey-protective coloration for thickety ground. It can thrive only in wet (or at least moist) places, where it can probe for worms without bending or breaking its bill. That it may spy its enemies while it feeds, its eyes-large, nearsighted, goggling-are close together near...