Word: tapere
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...Southern lady of the old school, helpless product of exaggerated chivalry and Victorian prudishness, may never in real life have been such a pathetic monster as Authoress Glasgow's heroine, but she was at least recognizably similar. This sad story of how a fading Virginia belle tried to taper off into normal old age may affront the shades of Southern colonels but should arouse only wondering pity from a differently complicated generation...
...certain heights in crowded districts of the city in order to provide air and sunlight in the streets and for smaller buildings, a new shape has been imposed upon architects. But even with this restriction, the space left cannot be completely utilized since the pile must continue to taper to satisfy the eye. The American Radiator Building which is built of black brick rises to a height of 200 feet where a gilded tower, illuminated at night, seems to float in a hazy cloud. New buildings are usually built in the mass envelope shape, with either slight frequent by flanking...
...injury of one of 13 'chute jumpers who took leave of a Ford trimotor together. The unlucky 13th landed in the grandstand, broke a leg, hurt his skull. Betty Lund, whose husband "Freddy" Lund was a flying partner of Dale ("Red") Jackson (see col. 3), stunted a taper wing Waco as if she had never heard that both men were killed doing that very thing...
...conspicuousness (he was recently received by President Hoover) but he is personally reticent. Last summer he made an aerial tour to every State capital in the U. S., was never more than an hour behind a schedule worked out months in advance. Dr. Brock has now three ships: Taper Wing Waco, Monocoupe, Stinson Junior; has logged 2,924 hr. (540 hr. in the past year...
...large "lion" tankard, bearing the arms of the City of London, is another conspicuous piece, while a silver seal-box, containing the wax seal of the first ruling member of the House of Hanover is of distinct historical value. The rest of the collection consists of delicately worked taper-sticks, a "humpty-dumpty" pitcher, a pair of baptismal shells, and other items of artistic interest...