Word: across
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jade God. When John Millicent stole a jade figurine out of a Hindoo temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait...
Among the crowds gawked a lanky, weather-beaten German, Paul Muller, 47- Columbus-wise, he had sailed a 25-foot boat across the Atlantic and arrived at Havana, fortuitously, just in time for the Inaugural. His first act in Havana was to write his German sweetheart a 24-page letter, mostly about the sea and love. Soon he had much more to write to her about, for in Havana he heard many a story, many a scandal about President Machado's administration. Among the authentic stories were: The General governs with iron-hand-in-velvet-glove. Latin-Americans want...
...Graf Zeppelin made a sweet passage from Friedrichshafen (on the German-Swiss border), down the Rhone Valley, across the Gulf of Lions, toward Gibraltar. Then the crankshaft of one of her five engines broke. Near Cartagena, Spain, Commander Eckener turned her back towards Friedrichshafen...
John Pierpont Morgan, yachtsman, has made his last voyage on his huge, black-hulled Corsair. Last week the Corsair beat United Cigar Store Tycoon George J. Whalen's Warrior across the Atlantic. In Manhattan the Corsair's officers announced that she would be turned over to the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Mr. Morgan will not stop yachting. A two-million-dollar successor to the Corsair is being built in Bath...
...first synchronized machine guns to fire between whirling propeller blades. After the War, Herr Fokker went from Germany to Holland, then (1923) to this country, of which he will soon become Mr. Fokker, U. S. citizen. Commander Richard Byrd flew a Fokker to the North Pole and another Fokker across the Atlantic; Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger flew a Fokker from California to Hawaii...