Word: dives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name may now fittingly be applied to Roy Asa Haynes, National Prohibition Commissioner, and to his agents and his policies. The practice of padlocking, for a twelve month, the doors of any restaurant or dive caught selling forbidden liquors is not new. Not until last week, however, did it become "Ritzy...
Looping is one of the simplest airplane maneuvers. The pilot dives his ship steeply towards the earth and gains tremendous speed. He then turns his elevator or horizontal up, so that the rush of air bears downward on the tail of his plane. Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve...
...first place, Molnar. He has dramatized the insanity of a young girl gone mad from unrequited love. He has, with the complete coöperation of the actor currently concerned, made her lover so grossly unattractive that she seems a fool to tolerate him, much less dive in the Danube on rejection. Subsequently she thinks herself an angel, wears feather wings and drinks glasses of milk at stated intervals...
...Austin's world's championship cowboy contest takes place at the Yankee Stadium, New York, Aug. 15 to 25. Here then is the greatest primitive spectacle of the struggle of man against beast that the laws of our land permit. " Bronk " riding, steer bulldogging (diving from horseback to the horns of a wild steer and throwing it by the application of human leverage to the sweeping horns); calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little in the movies...
...Loening, President of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation, his brother Albert T. Loening and two pilots narrowly escaped drowning in the East River while testing out a new set of controls on one of their flying boats, the Breezewing. The experimental controls jammed and the boat made a nose dive into the river of 300 feet. Carried under water, the occupants were able to release themselves and were rescued by a motor boat acting as tender. The Breezewing, equipped with a 400 horsepower Liberty and capable of 130 miles per hour, was greatly damaged, but the aviators sustained only minor...