Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magistrate Overton Harris in Harlem Court appealed one Sam Wah, three witnesses?Messrs. Lee Sam. Wing and Soo Lee?a Lawyer and Henry Chang. Chinese Consul. They complained that Irving Moskowitz and Max Rudikoff. respective proprietors of the Algonquin and Columbia Laundries, had displayed posters in their windows which Mr. Wah considered an affront to all Chinese, particularly those who wash clothes...
...Auvergnat, diligent in his attendance upon both M. Caillaux and M. Briand, was rewarded by the minor portfolio of Public Works in a Painleve Cabinet which starred Foreign Minister Briand and Finance Minister Caillaux. When Patron Briand shortly came in as Premier he took Protege Laval under his wing, gave him a course in Chamber intrigue as secretary general of the Prime Minister's office, graduated him prematurely in 1926 as Minister of Justice...
Marco Vatasso, a young lawyer from Turin, presented his student pass at the Vatican Library last week and waited quietly while a felt-slippered attendant brought him his books. On his way down to the reading room in the Sixtus V wing, he passed a workman and one of the architects engaged in the restoration of the Library arguing excitedly in front of a pillar. Marco Vatasso worked late. It was almost dusk, almost everyone else had left the building, when he looked up to see the Library's whole massive-beamed roof crashing down on his head. The avalanche...
Asked who is the best British flyer the average U. S. newsreader would probably name Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith. That notion was clubbed into the public mind by headlines far bigger and more numerous than any British airman has since received. It was deepened last year by publication in Liberty of a collection of testimonials by other famed airmen to Kingsford-Smith's prowess. Fortnight ago the foremost British aeronautical editor gave his definition of the foremost British flyer: Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler?like Kingsford-Smith, an Australian. The editor: iconoclastic Charles Grey Grey of The Aeroplane...
With a cargo of 1,500 lb., the tail end of the eastbound Christmas mail, Pilot Jimmy Johnson climbed out of Bellefonte, Pa., en route from Cleveland. About 14,000 ft. over Allport, Pa., the left wing of his Carrier Pigeon gave way, banged back against the fuselage, knocked the instrument board loose. Caught by the wind the instrument board was blown against Pilot Johnson's head, knocking him unconscious. At about 500 ft. Pilot Johnson regained sufficient sense to bail out, pull open his 'chute. Pilot: safe. Plane: wrecked. Mail: undamaged save for a few torn wrappings...