Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese Government at Nanking known to President Hoover. Mr. Chen is now back in Canton exactly where he started in 1926. He even holds the same office, Foreign Minister. He has broken with the Chinese whom President Hoover knows as President of China and whose Government is at Nanking, wasp- waisted Marshal Chiang Kaishek. Last week Mr. Chen said of Marshal Chiang: "He has a medieval mind. He has begun to think of China as his personal property. He wants to be Emperor of China...
...Just as wasp-waisted President Chiang Kaishek was about to shrill a speech of welcome to his "People's Congress" at Nanking; just as the President's northern ally, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, swooped down from Tientsin in his Ford plane, just as the party was going to begin last week, BANG-Revolution in Canton...
...Rhine" boasted many a beer-garden and German delicatessen dish. Ray Schmidt was good-looking, a blonde whom drummers, even happily married, invariably tried to lure into sin. Everyone liked her and thought the worst. In a day when beer was plentiful and automobiles a stock joke, her wasp-waisted, full-bosomed, generously rounded figure tantalized the males she met. More than tantalize she would not. Her many offers were more flattering to her figure than honorable to her sex. She was willing to marry Walter, the Jewish bank clerk, but something respectable in him drove him elsewhere. Circumstances took...
...supplies to any Army base in the U. S. or its near possessions in ten hours. Last week Detroit Aircraft Corp. delivered to the Army its bid for fulfillment of that plan: a "cleaned up" Lockheed with new landing gear devoid of all but two exposed struts; a cowled Wasp engine with supercharger. Speed claimed: 210 m.p.h.- "fastest transport plane in the world." To Commander Glen Kidston, rich British sportsman, Detroit Aircraft was to ship this week "the most expensive single- motored plane ever built in the U. S."-a special Lockheed, price $36,000-for "commuting" between Commander Kidston...
Edward VII, late British King-Emperor, had a wasp-waisted tomboy daughter Maud who swam, rowed, handled a yacht smartly, ran a typewriter, bound books, carved wood, played chess, advocated female suffrage-energetic traits which she inherited from her Danish mother, the dazzling and haughty British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of still more dazzling, still more imperious Marie Feodorovna, Empress of All The Russias. The two Empresses were resolved that Maud should become at least a queen- of what...