Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Frank L. Greene of Vermont: "As I was walking with my wife on Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, on Feb. 15, 1924, a Prohibition agent shot me in the forehead. He was aiming at a fleeing bootlegger. For weeks I lay in bed, half-dead, half-alive. Finally I recovered, except...
Shortly before the accident, Buenos Aires, led by its mayor, had thronged the harbor to watch the covey of broad-winged Loening amphibians come swooping in from Mer del Plata, the Argentine's summer capital. Crowds had followed, by motor and field-glass, as the ships rose again and...
Engineers advanced a theory to account for the accident. The amphibian planes were of a new design, having their Liberty motors inverted to afford the pilot greater forward vision and headroom. The unavoidable "blind spot" of the planes thus remained below the pilot, at close range. The Detroit, which appeared...
¶ Heard that Senator Norbeck of South Dakota had fractured two ribs, wrenched his shoulder, in an automobile accident on the Union Station plaza.
Premier Raymond Poincare went before the Chamber of Deputies last week and spoke of an old man in such fashion that soon there were tears in some eyes. . . . Would Messieurs les Députés recall for a moment Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis, who 16 years ago was Premier...