Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When they arrived the bird had flown to the roof of a nearby undertaking establishment where he spread an iridescent tail, fan-fashion, to show his pursuers he was a peacock not a vulture. He remained there until a policeman reached the roof, then took wing, flapped his way to the Hotel Wyndham, paused until his pursuers were in roping distance, flew away once more...
...seven years the Blennerhassetts enjoyed their island paradise. In one wing lived a staff of Negro slaves who waited on them hand & foot. In the other, the squire tinkered with his physical experiments. Beautiful Mrs. Blennerhassett, in a habit of red velvet and gold lace, galloped over the island and mainland on horseback or pointed her myopic husband's gun for him on hunting expeditions. And then one day in 1805 Mr. Blennerhassett met a man as eccentric and mercurial as himself, retiring U. S. Vice President Aaron Burr...
...Blennerhassett cellars for liquor. Subsequently, someone knocked over a candle. Up went the hemp, up went the wing, up went all that was left of Harman Blennerhassett's mansion in the wilderness. In Canada, whither the Blennerhassetts had moved following the embargo of the War of 1812 and the collapse of the cotton market, Mrs. Blennerhassett wrote a melancholy elegy to her Ohio River home: Like mournful echo, from the silent tomb, That pines away upon the midnight air, While the pale moon breaks out, with fitful gloom; Fond memory turns with sad, but welcome care, To scenes...
Swart, bulky United Air Lines Pilot Roy H. Warner, who stayed with his burning plane even after his clothing was ignited on a 1930 flight from. Boise, Idaho, to Pasco, Wash., managed to land with one wing completely eaten away, saved his mail before an explosion demolished the wreck...
...forward line lost only Bill Lincoin, a wing, and Dunbar Holmes, a center. Among the new sophomores to replace them are several men, notably Ed Cutter, Ralph Pope, and George Roberts as wings, and Johnny Mechem at center. The veteran forward wall promises plenty of power with captain Freddy Moseley, the Ford-Ecker and Hallowell-Hovenanian combinations, plus the Callaways, Sam and John, Al Dewey and Arthur Duffey...