Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richthofen: The Red Knight of the Air (German). Few stories of the War are better fitted to make a movie than the story of Baron Manfred von Richthofen who shot down more than 80 Allied aviators and was found one day between the hostile lines before Amiens sitting dead in his plane which he had guided to a perfect landing.* The material is still open for treatment as nothing much is done with it in this picture. Instead of using what is really known about Richthofen: his innate love of the chase, his early cavalry training, his duel with...
...Covenant of the League"), he declared that "since 1924 we have started upon another road. The [Kellogg-Briand] Pact of Peace has been signed at Paris, and that pact is now the starting point of further work. ... To a certain extent the pact is still a castle in the air and the Assembly of the League is going to build up the foundations to support this castle. . . . The British Government is desirous that that pact shall be not only a declaration on paper but shall be translated into constitutions and institutions that will work for peace in Europe...
...words next day, yet he called the distinguished Prime Minister of that friendly state "poor Jaspar."* Careless of affront to Japan, he spoke of Dr. Mine- ichira Adachi, Chief of the Japanese Delegation, as "the quiet, plaintive Adachi." The whole speech bristled with that same humoring superiority?that air of considering other statesmen mere children? which infuriated the Latin statesmen at The Hague to the point of tantrums and tears...
...proved to be the darkest hour before the dawn. The room was insufferably hot. It all seemed over. Somebody moved for adjournment for ten minutes to give us a chance to get a breath of air. We broke up into little groups. The British remained in the conference room. The others went outside. Then the bargaining began...
...threatened, U. S. fine-oil men heard that sailing for the Antarctic on Norway's first seaplane-equipped whaling boats were Pilots Riisar-Larsen and Leutzowe Holm, seasoned polar flyers for the late Explorer Roald Amundsen. Experiment off Alaska has proven the feasibility of spotting whales from the air at long range, resulting in tremendous kills, big cargoes of whale oil, cheap prices for competition with other oils...