Word: accidentally
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Lieut. Arthur Gavin, U.S.N., to be presented with the Schiff Memorial Trophy for 1927 (for most hours of flying without accident in Navy planes).
There are four moments upon which the focus of the story falls: the snowstorm in which, after an accident to her sleigh, Anna meets Count Vronsky; the steeplechase in which he rides with the gay officers of his regiment; the moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with...
Died. Lady Victoria Bullock, daughter of Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, onetime (1918-20) British Ambassador to France; following a hunting accident in which her skull was fractured when she attempted to ride under a low bridge; near Leicester.
THE BLOODY POET-Desider Kostolanyi-Macy-Masius ($2.50). In a parade of purple, the emperors of Rome go through the pages of old histories with the sound of loud horns. In the annals of Tacitus and those of medieval chroniclers, these men are present; their frail lusts and meagre rascality...
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY- Thornton Wilder-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). "On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." The five people were: The Marquesa de Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of...