Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cast into the form of an effective and pleasantly unpretentious revue, the novelty and chief attractiveness of the production lies in the cleverness of the negro cast which goes through its paces with an air that lends more individuality to the production than the skill of single performers. The musical background of the performance is the best part of it, and the songs and dances are executed with an ease and natural en- thusiasm of which only negroes are capable. This atmosphere in so sirongly prevalent that an unusual degree of continnity is preserved through the succession of unrelated scenes...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh went last week to aviation school. By direction of President Coolidge, he was assigned to active duty with the Army Air corps at Selfridge Field, Mich. He will fly the latest army pursuit plane; participating as an ordinary military pilot in routine gunnery training exercises; concentrating on machine gunnery fire at stationary targets and targets towed by other planes...
Leaving Philadelphia to keep a promise, he darted toward Long Island where he had pledged his presence at a charity air circus. As he slid neatly to earth, the frantic crowd broke police lines, swooped toward his plane. With the mob spirit hurling those in front straight to death in the still whirling propeller blades, Col. Lindbergh threw wide the throttle; wheeled the roaring plane just in time; flew away a lifesaver; lighted on an adjoining field...
...wild-eyed fellow who shook his fist and babbled threats "for the way he'd treated Lorna Doone Jackson."*Courteously President Insull listened, took Mr. King's arm, walked with him down the foyer to the manager's office, apparently to give him better chance to air his grievances. There he turned him over to detectives, who ordered him to a psychopathic hospital where doctors found him insane...
...draped in metal cloth who fluttered on at the Palace, bowed low as if for great applause, smiling. Now, at 62, there was little voice, little vitality for a Troubadour song, for d'Hardelet's "Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming...