Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy to visit Los Angeles without taking a look at its airplane industry. The day I visited one plant they were finishing the biggest passenger plane I ever saw. The top of the tail section was five and a half stories above my head Later, I was discussing this new plane with an airline's president who listened to my enthusiastic account and said: "It's a great ship, but it's already obsolete." Airmen are hard to understand...
...beautiful little feet of which he was very proud"). Tanguy, who painted deserts strewn with elaborate bones, made her happy sometimes. "There was one drawing that looked so much like me I made him give it to me," she says. "It had a little feather in place of a tail, and eyes that looked like the china eyes of a doll when its head is broken. . . . Tanguy also designed a little phallic drawing for my cigaret lighter which he had Dunhill engrave. It is the smallest Tanguy in the world...
Died. George Zerdin Medalie, 62, shorttime associate judge of New York State's Court of Appeals, longtime twister of the Tammany Tiger's tail; after a heart attack; in Albany. In 1933, Medalie passed on to Protégé Thomas E. Dewey the U.S. attorneyship that put him on the high road to racket-busting fame and national political significance...
...always, the crews lined up for the first day's race in the order they finished the previous year (Jesus has been "Head of the River" for nine of the past twelve years). So Bull College was put near the tail end, in 59th place out of 60 crews (Trinity Seventh was 60th). When Corpus' Third, King's Third, and Saint Catharine's Fourth, the other tail-enders, got snarled in each other's oars, the coaches began firing pistol shots and Connie began to scream. Her G.I.s, who took her shrieks for exhortations, plowed...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...