Word: rivering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress authorized construction of eight "treaty" or 10,000-ton cruisers. The Salt Lake City and the Pensacola were the first commissioned. Uncompleted in the water: the Northampton, Chester, Houston. Fortnight ago at Newport News the Augusta was launched under a shower of yellow Savannah River water. Unlaunched: the Louisville (63% completed), the Chicago (65% completed...
...Pridham taxied to the end of the field, roared down the takeoff strip and was off in the fast increasing light-for his last trip. One hour later, by the dawn's early light, he was approaching the Hartford aerodrome, Brainard Airport, at the edge of the Connecticut River. He tipped the nose of his plane to the field, left his motor open. Two observers watched him, amazed that he was going into a needless power dive. Below him, in a little one-story observation shack, with a platform on the roof, should have been the night-watchman. Pridham...
...herald Manhattan's aviation show last week a squadron of planes was to caracole down the Hudson River from Albany, duplicating Glenn Hammond Curtiss' pioneer long-distance water hop (May 29, 1910). Inclement winds, snow flurries and fogs prevented such sideshow. Thus the show opened on a minor note. It continued so. Attendance was good, buying niggling. This pleased the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce heads, who had refused to coöperate with Aviator's Post No. 743 of the American Legion, organizers of the exhibition. The War flyers believed that enough aviation manufacturing and sales groups...
...flesh and blood. To write is to make love. I place the senses higher than the brain. I should like all my books to provide the same pleasure as a woman gives. I have five senses and I use them all." Other books: Sur La Fleuve Amour (The River Amour), Cholera, Les Cinq Sens...
Pilgrims fled in terror, many fell, panic threatened. "The camel! The camel!" screamed some of the quick-witted. From the rear of the procession a brave cameleer spurred his loose-lipped beast forward to give the conciliatory bite. Fearful of its ears, the mad elephant fled trumpeting to the river, was eventually rounded up by two workmanlike tame elephants...