Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the wheel horses of British politics took to the public platform to prepare British opinion for the coming shift in foreign policy. From the beginning, one of the most ardent believers in clamping Sanctions on Italy's ambitions was Sir Austen Chamberlain. Last week this gaunt Elder Statesman was on his feet crying...
Again & again the past three weeks a twin-motored Boeing 247-D transport took off from Oakland airport, circled lazily in the California sun, came in swiftly to a perfect landing. Each time the pilot, who could see nothing outside because canvas covered the windows, ignored wheel and rudder bar completely, merely twiddled a few knobs on the dashboard. Last week, with this technique producing 24 perfect landings out of every 25 at empts, United Airlines announced it had finally devised a practicable method of landing "blind...
...made much use in their advertising. Although Miss Davis still can make her eyes pop and her lips droop, The Golden Arrow proves nothing more than that she is adept at nonchalance. Good shot: her proposal of marriage to George Brent while they hang upside down in a Ferris wheel...
...repeats out loud any lines she may have learned the evening before, rehearses dance steps by waving her feet in the air. After 45 minutes, she decides to get dressed. For breakfast she has fruit, cereal and a coddled egg. Her shiny Cadillac, with Chauffeur John Griffith at the wheel, is waiting in front of the Temples' Santa Monica house. In it she and her mother are whisked off to the Fox Studio. On the set Shirley is supervised by Mrs. Temple. She also does her lessons. Precocious, she has been held back as much as possible...
...greatest in the world. Last week's audiences were fascinated by Stokowski: his swift graceful dash for the podium, the svelte back he turned, the fine graceful hands which seem to mold every phrase of the music that is played. The orchestramen seemed like cogs in a magic wheel, but within the Orchestra each player has an important identity. Violinist Alexander Hilsberg is envied for his $35,000 Guarnerius which once belonged to Jan Kubelik. Tubaman Philip Donatelli is the orchestra's winemaker, father of seven daughters. Two Spanish Torellos play in the double-bass section. Father Anton...