Word: saucer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lila Lee, saucer-eyed, doll-faced heroine of the silents, was "feeling fine" after two years at a Saranac Lake, N.Y. tuberculosis sanatorium, was set to be up & about (in Manhattan) next week...
Less than a year after she started dancing, Pearl Primus won a New Dance Group scholarship, later studied with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (TIME, July 28), who called her "my little primitive," and West Indian Dancer Belle Rosette, who taught her how to freeze her mobile features and saucer-white eyes into demoniac, war-mask grimaces...
Stovepipes; Washtubs. In Seattle, 15 persons in one day called the papers to report having seen "flying saucers." Two Portland deputy sheriffs spotted "20 in a line going like hell to the west." A Spokane woman saw five fluttering "washtubs," each "about the size of a five-room house." A Seattle coast guardsman took a picture of a "saucer" at dusk. The picture showed a pinpoint of light. A policeman saw a lone saucer skimming high over San Francisco Bay. From people in Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and 29 other states...
Reached in his office yesterday, Dean Bender told newsmen that the could adopt no official position on the saucer mystery...
...points to this new invention," Professor Mather suggested. "People have been looking at the sky for more than 3000 years, and this is the first time that saucer-like objects flying at high speed have ever been recorded...