Word: zig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse which breaks into a run when headed toward the stable, the laggard giant DO-X flew briskly homeward to Europe last week. With a working crew of 13 and Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance, Switzerland whence...
Misleading to many is the Moscow Government's "zigzag policy" which Stalin & Co. apply to nearly everything. Zig they go as far to the left as they dare; then zag to the right, biding their time; then zig again further to the left! Last week Moscow's famed Pravda, often the mouthpiece of Josef Stalin, zigged furiously at the kulaks (rich peasants...
...company will have for its slogan: "Glorifying the American Girl." It will stress designs for a special type of woman. If the woman thinks she looks like a member of the Ziegfeld chorus she will easily find her dress, for each label will give the name of the Zig wearing that model. One store in each city will have a franchise for handling Golding dresses. The company will engage "leading American artists" to design its frocks, has not revealed their names...
...Ziggy felt he must be surer than ever of success. Accordingly he aimed pointblank at the middle-aged male who is the basic support of all girl shows, by having shapely Faith Bacon open the proceedings with nothing on at all. Gladys Glad, still rated as the most perfect "Zig" ever discovered, was paraded after Miss Bacon, led out by handsome, hard-working Harry Richman, to whom few tired businessmen's wives are indifferent. Richman's duty was to pace the evening and loosen up laugh muscles, stimulate the tune appetite...
...saloon, in his cabin, on deck. There he found his employer's handkerchief. He ran to the bridge to tell Capt. John M. Kelley. The Sabalo put about. Foot by foot a searchlight's bright shaft swept a circle about the idling yacht, found only its own zig-zag reflection. (The owner's yachting cap was fished from the sea two days later...