sky pilot
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George Hubert Wilkins, black-bearded Australian soldier of fortune, and his sky pilot, Carl Ben Eielson, saying they had crawled safely off the Polar Sea after 17 days and nights of discomfort.
From Time Magazine Archive
Depending on our courage and state of mind we run either for the woods or the Hall, to discover that no matter how thin you slice it, it is still sky pilot baloney.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a Navy sky pilot wonders out loud how he can go back to strictly denominational ministering after the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you had gone off on a long hunt for the sky pilot, you wouldn't have heard yet that I was gone.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré
Few were the houses on the prairie, and frequently did this "sky pilot," as he was sometimes called, travel from forty to fifty miles to visit some aged miner or sick cowboy.
From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by Maclean, John
