Word: tails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become when Dr. Tucker resigned in 1909. Died. Thor, 2, able retriever of golfer's dub-shots; at Briarcliff Lodge golf course, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. Dog Thor was struck by an automobile when retrieving a ball-nevertheless brought it back to the golfer, wagged his tail, died...
Died. Lieut. E. H. Barksdale, 29, World War "Ace"; at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio in an airplane crash. Once Lieut. Barksdale parachuted to safety when the "flipper" (tail surfaces) of his plane left the ship. Again, this year, he jumped after the wings came off the fuselage in which he was seated. Last week F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War in charge of Aviation (TIME, July 12) saw Pilot Barksdale's plane go into a tail spin at 2,000 ft.; saw him jump, open his 'chute; saw the silken shrouds foul in the struts...
...contained in the preamble to the Jones law and are disposed to favor more, instead of less, self-government for us." Recently in the U. S. gum-chewers were horrified upon opening their favorite pink-sheeted tabloid to see the photograph of a Filipino native with a four-inch tail...
...long is the fake tail on a Filipino native...
George Inness Jr. used to say, "is the vision of him painting a washtub. . . ." There was in that statement perhaps more vision than memory, for Artist Inness spent little time adorning laundry utensils. Even the stories about his hard-pressed boyhood-how he cut off a cat's tail to get his first paintbrush-are somewhat fanciful. He was poor. He was never indigent. From the time that he left grammar school he devoted himself furiously to the studies that made him the greatest of U. S. landscape painters. In his studios in Montclair, N. J., in Washington Square...