In a few more months, she toe-danced, twirled and reached for the sun.

Aerial warfare and the atomic bomb, which he “invented” in The War in the Air (1908) and The World Set Free (1914), have proved as apocalyptically destructive as he prophesied.

The long distance and the indifferent roads made the journey impossible.

The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.