Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dirigibles for Offense. Up under the belly of the dirigible Los Angeles last week rose a Navy service plane. Both craft were traveling 60 m. p. h. On the top wing of the plane was a big hook. Down from the dirigible extended a rigid trapeze. The plane's pilot successfully maneuvered to engage hook with trapeze so that the plane hung there, was carried along. Three times the plane thus made successful contact. The experiment had been effected previously with smaller, semirigid Navy dirigibles, never with the big Los Angeles. Experts viewed the work as changing big dirigibles...
...unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such he must wear periwig and gown at all meetings of Parliament, listen to debates, rule tactfully on parliamentary procedure. In return he has a stone palace overlooking the Thames to live in (a wing of the Houses of Parliament), a salary of $25,000 a year, a further allowance for "costumes and effects" of $5,000, and an annual present of a fat buck and a fat doe from His Majesty's Master of the Buckhounds...
...King-Emperor is one of the six or seven finest wing shots in England. To console him for the loss of the Scotch shooting, the Sandringham gamekeeper announccd that Sandringham coverts are unusually well-stocked this year. Last week Lord Stamfordham, the King's private secretary, ordered a pair of guns a few ounces lighter than those His Majesty used before his illness, from Purdey, famed gunsmith...
...young people's wing of the Protestant churches is the interdenominational International Society of Christian Endeavor; membership, circa four millions. Especially active in it are Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Disciples. Approximately half of the young Baptists belong to it, the other half are members of the Baptist Young People's Union. Young Lutherans have their own Luther League, their Walther League. Similarly the Methodists formed their own Epworth League a few years after the founding (1881) of Christian Endeavor...
...will of Myron Timothy Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, onetime Governor of Ohio, was filed last week. Chief bequests: $50,000 to the Herrick Public Library of Wellington, Ohio,* for the construction of a children's library wing; $20,000 for the optional use of the library trustees; a $15,000 endowment fund to the American Hospital at Neuilly, just outside Paris. Estimated net value of the Herrick estate...