Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seconds, as we watched, it grew into a black, whirling corkscrew at least 600 feet high and probably 50 feet or more in diameter. ... As it grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising in clouds from where its tail lashed the sea. Yet its writhing edges were clean-cut as a broad band of black ribbon. ... It was exactly seven minutes from the time the spout first formed until it faded into the black depths of the moving squall...
...Social Democrats. Although they are numerically much the largest party, they cannot form their own Cabinet because a whole pack of fractional factions would join with the Conservatives to oust a Socialist Government. In these peculiar circumstances last week Carl Gustaf Ekman seemed to be the best tail King Gustaf could have chosen to wag the Swedish dog. Irt 1926, in similar circumstances, His Majesty made the Great Templar Prime Minister for the first time, and Tail Ekman then wagged Sweden very satisfactorily until 1928, when he was succeeded by Admiral Lindman whom he now succeeds...
...Lieut. Harold Bromley raced his low-wing Lockheed down a runway for a Tacoma-to-Tokyo flight. Gasoline splashed in his eyes. Out of control, the plane ground-looped, broke into pieces. In September the late Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy testflew an identical plane for Bromley. Part of the tail surfaces washed away. Fahy was severely injured. Last week Bromley's third Tacoma-Tokyo ship burst into flames over the Mojave desert, near the Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif. Testpilot M. W. Catlin was horribly burned...
...custom requires, the first fish caught in the Bangor, Me. salmon pools?this year an 11-lb. grilse?was sent to the White House for presentation to the President. Somehow it got into the kitchen where a zealous chef hacked off its head and tail, was about to cook it for the President's dinner, when at the White House arrived Maine's Congressman Donald Francis Snow. Seizing the fish, Mr. Snow hastily stitched its head back on with a needle and thread, wrapped its tailless end up in a piece of paper, hurried out to the White House posing...
Three thousand guests were bid to Notre Dame by Baron and Baroness Tyrrell. The suave gentlemen and sparkling ladies of the Corps Diplomatique, the dowdy but invincible aristocrats of the Faubourg St. Germain, the most presentable of the Nouveau Riches, a sprinkling of tail-coated French statesmen, a dash of the long-haired Boul' Mich (for the Baroness Tyrrell gives literary suppers), these along with the most eminent Roman Catholics of the English and U. S. colonies jammed vast Notre Dame de Paris...