Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Maxim's was back in business. Mahogany, glass and brass glistened as of old. Albert was on hand to welcome the bejeweled and tail-coated guests: Princess Faiza of Egypt, Couturier Jacques Fath, Cartoonist Roger Wild, Mlle. Constantinesco, Fred McEvoy, Mme. Audemars and a safari of minor movie officials, businessmen and actresses. Gallantly, the sprinkle of oldtimers and pleasure's eager neophytes strove to revive the tradition of flaunting frivolity. But something more was missing than Gérard, who had retired to a sumptuous château near Biarritz which he had bought with tips...
...until the needle of the airspeed indicator creeps close to the dread red mark of "compressibility." At this critical speed, the airstream, accelerated by crowding over the curved surfaces, reaches at certain spots the speed of sound.† Then a standing sound wave may form on the wing or tail, roaring and hammering, perhaps chewing holes in the plane's skin or freezing the controls...
...other classics like Bryce's American Commonwealth for a place in U.S. bookshelves and meditations. But it didn't. Since Harper's published it in 1907, it has shared in the long neglect and inaccessibility of James's work. It now appears-at perhaps the tail end of a two-year-old Henry James "revival"* with an introduction by an English writer of notable talent, Poet W. H. Auden, whose expatriation is the reverse of James...
Firefly. Near Trinity Center, Calif., a grazing horse swished his tail at a fly, hit a low-hanging high-tension wire, set his tail ablaze, was electrocuted, started a 55-acre forest fire...
...McGuyrt reached for a new lever in his cluttered cockpit. He looked back at his passenger, and pulled. A telescopic gun tube exploded a 37-mm. charge and sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that, it was just like any of Airman Lambert's previous 58 jumps...