Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reichstag (TIME, May 28), Socialist Muller at first failed for 17 days to assemble a Cabinet able to command a majority. Nine major parties continued deadlocked. Jeers were heard about "A Cabinet by Christmas!" No one seemed much impressed by Hermann Müller's owlish spectacles, low voice, plaintive air. And yet the Socialist plurality is now too large for a Cabinet to be formed by a Prime Minister of any other party...
...Lear Black* famed as the U. S. businessman who has taxied by air the largest number of miles, last fortnight gave up temporarily his most extensive taxi-tour. With one valet, two Dutch pilots and a sturdy triple-engined Fokker Jupiter plane, he set out a month ago to tour the world. No Jules Verne hero, he intended to break no record of speed, altitude, distance or endurance. He would go in a leisurely way from Croydon Airdrome, England, to Tokyo, and back, with sundry detours about the Mediterranean coast, in South Africa, and Mesopotamia-a matter...
...TIME, March 5, referred to Van Lear Black as the British born "owner of the Baltimore Sun papers, purser of a blockade-running munitions freighter during the great submarine war, navigator by sea and air." Actually he cannot himself navigate a ship or plane; has never been officially a purser; and is the U. S.-born chairman of the board of the A. S. Abell Co., publishers of the Baltimore Sun, the principal stockholders of which are Charles S. Abell, Harry C. Black, Van Lear Black, Joseph A. Blondell, Paul Patterson...
Chinamen in Boston, fired by the example of Patriot King, are rushing to Muller Field, newly opened airport. Nine young Nationalists have arranged for flying lessons. Burr Leyson, War pilot who taught Chinaman King, will sail in September to organize a Chinese air force...
...play to settle the tie. Both showed the strain of the three days' play in their faces but not in their games. Jones, plump and thoughtful, his cowlick slicing over his eyebrow, stalked after his ball in silence while Farrell, lean and dark, walked with a gloomy air beside him. As beautiful, as effective as ever was Jones's effortless, mechanically perfect game; his drives were as long as ever, his putts as straight and his score-144-identical with that which had put him ahead in the second round. To Jones, winning would have been an honor...