Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blackbirding the leading theme of his annual report. Dr. Jessup was astonished to discover that "drum majors and tuba players now find themselves possessed of special talents with a marketable value in the college field," that a college representative arriving at a high school learned he was the 83rd scout who had visited it that year. "In bidding for favor," scolded Dr. Jessup, "we are streamlining the job-our current models glitter with gadgets that smack of the factory and the salesman. . . . Cut rates, rebates, extravagant claims, unfairness in competition have brought to business its own punishment. Just as surely...
...back of another on the theory that if they could be separated in midair it would "solve the fundamental problem of launching long-range aeroplanes with a full load . . . eliminate the take-off altogether." In 1916, an air force lieutenant named Day crudely accomplished this by lifting a Bullet scout plane from the wing of a Porte flying boat. Since then blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Robert Hobart Mayo, Cambridge graduate, airplane designer, and technical adviser to Imperial Airways, has worked on the idea. Backed by Imperial Airways, the British Government and Short Bros., famed manufacturer of Britain...
...there is another equality important frame-work in which workers are not only welcome, but sorely needed: the Boy Scout enrollment for Cambridge is half what it should be because of the lack of capable leaders. The troops now in existence are part of Cambridge parishes, since despite the non-sectarian nature of the organization, it is felt that children need more fundamental training than the art of making fires without matches. Yet there is room in every church for additional troops if leaders can be found. It is the hope of Mr. J. W. Clements, Cambridge Scout executive, that...
...opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade her shirt, etc. for a brief costume of feathers and a habitat in darkest Africa. Her purpose, inspired by Pressagent Corny Davis (Jack Oakie), is to catch the attention of Talent Scout Lucius B. Blynn (Edward Everett Horton), in Africa on a big-game-hunting vacation...
Deep in the jungle, Bring 'Em Back Blynn discovers the bird-girl warbling away in the midst of an enthusiastic chorus of birds. Any opera scout but one named Lucius B. Blynn would have recognized the tune as Saint-Saëns' Nightingale song. Caught in a bamboo cage, she is taken to the U. S., twittering bird notes to a feathered crony named Ewyscray, venturing Gallic asides to Press-agent Jack Oakie. Before the ensuing complications are ironed out, the bird-girl trains her upper-register fluidity on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor...