Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enchanted Cottage. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play has achieved more Barriesque success on the screen than it did on the stage, due to the discriminating direction of John S. Robertson, who is an old hand at his Barrie. And Richard Barthelmess returns to that enchantmemt for the public which he had in Tol'able David...
...strengthen its current for operation at a greater distance to bring airplanes in flight to a full stop and send them crashing to earth. No insulation is proof against this weapon, for if the carburetor were sufficiently protected, the ray could be so intensified as to set the wing fabric afire. Said he: "I believe that in the near future machine guns will be found only in museums...
House of Commons. The Labor Ministry in Parliament takes frequent falls, but it goes on. It suffered defeat, 221 to 212, on the question of a Rent Bill. As a sop to its left wing, the "Clydesiders," the Ministry proposed a clause whereby no tenant could be evicted for nonpayment of rent, provided he could show that he was unable to pay because of unemployment. The Liberals joined the conservatives in denouncing this clause as "Socialism" and "confiscation." The Government would have met defeat at that point, but John R. Clynes filibustered until the House was obliged to adjourn...
Motor failure is provided for by using two motors, one behind the other, placed on top of the wing, each driving its own propeller. In an ordinary twin engine airplane, with the engines placed one on each side of the centre, if one motor fails there is a dangerous tendency to slew the machine 'round. With the motors in tandem, the thrust of the propellers is always at the centre of the plane; and with one motor completely out of commission, the aviator can keep on going, even though at a slower speed. The engines are carefully housed...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Rostand's superb heroics taking wing from Walter Hampden as the poet with a nose and a conscience...