Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place until we get rid of all those damn bureaucrats, hobocrats, autocrats and all those other crats up there in Washington. . . . Oh, it'll take us five or six years, I reckon, but we'll set up a real Utopia in this State. We've got to run our own business and not have any of those dam fol-de-rols that's going on up there...
...ready for the Yale race. The usual time is at least nine weeks, but I got busy and finished her just about on time. It was the first eight I ever built, and the crew broke the record in it though they didn't win the race. I've heard it said that it's the best boat they've ever had in the house...
...left Honolulu, sped swiftly to the U. S. on the wings of a brisk tailwind. They reached Oakland in less than 15 hours, two hours ahead of schedule. Kingsford-Smith poked his grease-smudged face out of the cockpit and grinned: "I'm sorry to be so early. . . . I've got the best airplane in the world...
...when burly Lieutenant Scott and dapper Captain Black flew their scarlet Comet into Darwin. They had covered the last 300 miles over water on one motor, risked death landing on a field made soggy by the first rain in seven months. Said sandy-haired Lieutenant Scott: "We've had a devil of a trip." But they had flown 9,000 miles in two days, had broken the England-Australia record of 162 hr. in the unbelievable time of 52 hr. 33 min., were only 2,000 miles from their goal at Melbourne...
...that he was going to see the "Chief" about it. The ICC received a call from the White House and two other Commissioners gave the necessary approval. When the railroadmen thanked him, Mr. Jones chuckled: "Well, we don't want you fellows to die now anyway. We've got to help you along until Congress meets...