Cock of the Air is a 1932 American pre-Code aviation comedy film directed by Tom Buckingham and written by Charles Lederer and Robert E. Sherwood. The...
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The Cock Destroyers were a pornographic double act comprising Rebecca More and Sophie Anderson. After meeting at a British porn awards show, the pair set...
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Billie Dove (category American people of Swiss descent)
but she ended the relationship. Hughes cast her as a comedian in his film Cock of the Air (1932). She also appeared in his movie The Age for Love (1931)...
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The Cock is a gay dive bar in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is noted for its exhibitionist atmosphere and popularity...
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"Who Killed Cock Robin" is an English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 494. The earliest record of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's...
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The Andean cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus), also known as tunki (Quechua), is a large passerine bird of the cotinga family native to Andean cloud...
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purchased the North Las Vegas Air Terminal. In the late-1960s, Hughes Tool ventured into the hotel and casino business with the acquisition of the Sands,...
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Jean Peters (category University of Michigan alumni)
film actress. She was known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best...
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was the youngest son of a civil servant, Harold Norman Cocker (1907–2001), at the time of his son's birth serving as an aircraftman in the Royal Air Force...
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2023; the first episode of the second series, broadcast in September 2024, was dedicated to Anderson and aired alongside a documentary about the Cock Destroyers...
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Howard R. Hughes Sr. (category American businesspeople in the oil industry)
founded the Hughes Tool Company. He invented the "Sharp–Hughes" two-cone rotary drill bit during the Texas Oil Boom. Hughes was the father and namesake of Howard...
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Cockfighting (redirect from Cock fighting)
after the term "cock of the game" used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute (category Medical and health foundations in the United States)
than the medical institute. Most of the money for the medical institute came from the operations at Ground System Group responsible for providing Air Defense...
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A fighting cock is a rooster used in the blood sport of cockfighting. Fighting cock may also refer to: The Fighting Cocks: music venue in London, England...
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Pre-Code sex films (category Film genres particular to the United States)
as Laughing Sinners, The Devil Is Driving, Free Love, Hot Saturday, Merrily We Go to Hell and, most ludicrously, Cock of the Air, although some proposed...
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during cocking Overlever – the cocking lever is located above the barrel and is flexed upwards during cocking, seen in some air pistols Motorized cocking powered...
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Cocker Spaniels are dogs belonging to two breeds of the spaniel dog type: the American Cocker Spaniel and the English Cocker Spaniel, both of which are...
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British Film Institute. 2001. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2012. "House of Commons – Culture, Media and Sport – written...
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"Cock Magic" is the eighth episode in the eighteenth season of the American animated television series South Park. The 255th overall episode, it was written...
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considered among the best of the period, and he, along with writer friends Ben Hecht and Herman Mankiewicz, became major contributors to the film genre known...
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Matt Moore (actor) (category Irish emigrants to the United States)
Schofield Consolation Marriage (1931) - The Colonel Cock of the Air (1932) - Terry Rain (1932) - Dr. Macphail The Pride of the Legion (1932) - Cavanaugh Little...
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of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2016. Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The...
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Walter Catlett (category Members of The Lambs Club)
(1931 short) as The Nuisance One Quiet Night (1931 short) Platinum Blonde (1931) as Bingy Maker of Men (1931) as McNeil Cock of the Air (1932) as Col....
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died from surgical complications. His film Cock of the Air was restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2016. The Atom (1918) Laughing Gas (1920) (director...
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Weihrauch HW 77 (category Air guns)
The Weihrauch HW 77 (HW for Hermann Weihrauch) is an underlever-cocked, spring-piston air rifle developed and manufactured by the German sporting weapons...
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Fairbanks. This is a list of feature films originally produced or distributed by United Artists, including those made overseas. Note: The MGM films that United...
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chicken restaurant chain. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cock of Barcelos. Symbols of Portugal Gallic rooster Lenda do Galo de Barcelos (Portuguese)...
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John Reynolds Cock, DFC (3 March 1918 – 20 August 1988) was an Australian-born flying ace of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He...
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branded themselves "The Cock Destroyers", posted a video that went viral. Both her and More's videos became internet memes and the pair were subsequently...
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¿Got Cock? is the sixth studio album by the Revolting Cocks released on April 13, 2010, through 13th Planet Records. Josh Bradford - lead vocals Al Jourgensen...
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