Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irked by taunts that the lionesses of his Missouri safari (TIME, Oct. 17 & 31) were "young and kittenish," Denver M. Wright, St. Louis manufacturer, announced he would try it over. Declared he: "If I do it again I'll get a couple of old, vicious ones. I'm the sort of a fellow that likes to do a thing, once he sets his mind to it." Next day he was reported off on a "quail hunt," taking with him two lion cubs younger than the first pair...
...gusty December day in 1903, on the slope of a sand dune on a North Carolina coastal reef, Orville Wright started the tiny engine of a flimsy biplane, crawled aboard the lower wing and lay prone at the crude controls. The machine began to move. Brother Wilbur ran alongside steadying the wing. The ship left the ground, jerkily trod the wind for twelve marvelous seconds, nosed into the sand. A powered airplane had flown...
Last week aging, taciturn Orville Wright, 61, stood beneath a gale-pelted canvas shelter at the same sand dune. Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk, to witness the unveiling of a monument to that historic flight. (His brother Wilbur died 20 years ago.) The actual scene of the flight lay a quarter-mile to the north. Sea winds had budged Kill Devil Hill some 50 ft. a year before Army engineers anchored it with hardy grasses and shrubs...
...south wall of the pylon the names Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright are carved in high letters. Within the base is a memorial room on a wall of which is the inscription...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley accepted the $275,000 monument for the Government. Brigadier General Louis Hermann Bash read a letter from President Hoover, presented the rain-splotched paper to Mr. Wright. Said Mr. Wright: "Thank you." It was his only speech...