Word: wing
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News not of United's choice or making was the suit filed against it last week by one George A. Hughes of Lincoln, Neb. for alleged infringement of his patent on dihedral (up-tilted) wing design. To prove that he invented flying principles used by United, Plaintiff Hughes offered to have onetime Colorado cowboys testify they amused themselves in the 1890's by plugging Hughes's flying models full of holes with six-shooters...
Died. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 79, British playwright (Trelawney of the Wells and 53 others); after an operation; in London. He shocked London with The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, helped shake the British theatre out of its pre-Ibsen fustiness...
These small, dark brown crickets have, however, a special sort of wing covers or tegmina, useless for flight, but used for producing its song. The under surface of the wing is covered with minute, (148 per millimeter) file-like projections which are scraped by a hardened, raised portion on the inner edge of the tegmina. The cricket draws this scraper edge across the rough under-part of the wing cover at a rate of 16 1-3 times per second, if the complete back and forth wing movement is counted as one, rather than as two, motions...
...York, Nov. 20--A thorough investigation of Fascist activities in the United States was promised tonight as result of alleged statements by Major General Smedley D. Butler that he had been asked by a group of wealthy New Yorkers to lead a right wing movement designed to set up a dictatorship in Washington...
Most interesting to minds of a radical turn should be the course of the legal controversy as to whose tender wing shall harbor the person of little ten-year old Gloria Vanderbilt until she comes of age, that of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney or that of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. After some weeks of tedious briefs, replications, rejoinders, evidence from the kitchen, and random scurrility, the Supreme Court has closed its cars to further discourse concerning the whimsies of the elite. Justice Carew, a modern Solomon as it were, assured the public Wednesday that the child ". . . is not to have...