Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dapper little Dane who for one year reigned as King of the Greeks is George II, a great-nephew of Britain's late Queen Alexandra and a frequent house guest of her Son George V. Last week George II was hopefully trying in London to make head or tail of the latest Greek election. So were most Greeks...
...days were spent checking the ship for the second leg of the transpacific air-way-to Midway Island, 1,323 mi. away. Capt. Edwin C. Musick fumigated the cabin from tip to tail to prevent any mosquitoes being taken along. Midway has never had any, does not want any. The plane was loaded with enough fuel to fly to Midway and back nonstop. Also loaded were 5 gal. of ice cream and several cinemas for the Midway colonists...
...week that Dictator Mussolini had called three more classes to the colors, making a total of over a million men available for use in Africa. They were leaving Italy last week at the rate of two shiploads per day. As a final twist to the British lion's tail, Il Duce went down to Ostia, took the controls of his trimotored seaplane and flew off over the Tyrrhenian Sea for his first visit in twelve years to Sardinia, found two miles of conscripts lined up ready to embark...
...ripped the other boy's beautiful velvet coat from tail to collar. The other two stood aghast and gasped at the impudence, but its show put a temporary stop to the processes of initiation and the night passed off fairly comfortably...
...Detroit devout Stanislaus Felix Hausner, Polish born aviator, who once spent eight days clinging to the tail of a wrecked plane in mid-Atlantic, crashed to his death while stunting over a Pilsudski memorial service, but of all the memorial services throughout the world, the most dramatic incident occurred in the town of Rowne on the Polish-Ukraine frontier. While bells tolled and villagers hurried to the church for a Requiem Mass, a shot was suddenly fired from the Russian side of the frontier. Polish guards tumbled out, rifles in hand. Up rode a long-coated Soviet cavalryman begging permission...