Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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June 13?Trial race of U. S. America's Cup defenders; at Glen Cove, L. I. Probable starters: Enterprise, Resolute, Vani-tie, Meetamoe, Whirlwind, Yankee...
...Whirlwind. Mrs. Edwin Thorne, mother of Landon Ketchum Thorne, Manhattan banker, broke the bottle, and the America's Cup contender in which her son owns the biggest share tilted easily down its ways in the shipyard of George Lawley & Son at Neponset, Mass. Head up, like a horse freed in pasture, the Whirlwind checked up off Squantum Island, her waterline standing out between her white topsides and the green paint on her mahogany underbody. She is 130 ft. overall, 86 ft. on the water; she has a canoe-like stern, long, overhanging bow, a longer and squarer keel than...
Prokofiev's Classical Symphony in D Major and the Scherzo and March from his opera The Love for Three Oranges (Victor, 2 records, $2 each)-Prokofiev's fast-stepping rhythms played with exhilarating, almost whirlwind effect by Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony...
Curtiss Robins seating three persons and powered with Wright Whirlwind or Curtiss Challenger engines were used by all the clubs the exception of the Harvard Flying Club's plane which is a Travel Aire. A rough estimate reveals that the total distance covered by all the ploanes was ever ten thousand miles with the Minnesota and Kansas flyers having flown about 2300 miles each...
...late great Robert Marion LaFollette, brother of Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") LaFollette, he has a name and a talent which might work political magic in his State. But Brother Phil, lawyer and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, short-time District Attorney of Dane County, whirlwind campaigner for Brother Bob, was in no hurry. He silenced "drift talk," insisted he was "too young" (he is now 33), kept Progressive leaders waiting for his services (TIME...