Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service to send every plane on the search. Col. Lind- bergh, the line's technical advisor, and his wife flew from Long Island to hunt. The aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga sent ten planes from San Diego harbor; the Army sent squadrons from Texas, California, Nebraska. Western Air Express pilots, keeping up their service, had orders to deviate from their fixed routes to scan remote terrain...
...week's end Western Air Express Pilot George K. Rice saw, high up in the forests on Mt. Taylor, 11,289-ft. extinct volcano on the Continental Divide, midway between Albuquerque and Gallup, what seemed small patches of snow. He flew low. In the sunlight, midst trees, gleamed pieces of duralumin. In Pilot Rice's words: "Then we saw the left wing of the plane where it had been cut off by striking a tree. The wing was turned upside down and we could read the [license] numbers 9649. The balance of the plane we saw about...
Rumanians are an earthy people. Last week, as lovely Lisl Goldarbeiter stepped off the Vienna Express at Bucharest, she was met by an ogglesome throng of youths whose reaction soon became riotously negative. "Give us someone our weight!" roared voices from the crowd. "A bent pin for the Austrian Jewess! Give us Magda Dimitrescu ?Magda is our weight...
...wrote Critic Hannen Swaffer of the London Daily Express after witnessing, last week in Malvern, the English premiere of The Apple Cart, George Bernard Shaw's first play in six years...
...rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed as a locomotive engineer, he describes the cannonball express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year. Best actress : brown-yellow Nina Mae McKinney...