Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also on the air last week was Ganna Walska, charming wife of Harold McCormick, famed more for her wish to sing than for any actual singing. Many a manager has announced Wisher Walska, many an audience has been disappointed until newsmen have denied her a voice and she herself has pleaded stagefright. Evidently the microphone held less terror than a sea of faces for Wisher Walska sang over the radio last week as scheduled, prettily, quaveringly, the "Dich teure Halle" from Tannhauser, Giordoni's Coro Mio Ben, and "Daddy's Sweetheart" by Liza Lehmann...
Capt. Patterson's heart is in the air; notwithstanding that he never learned to fly. He tried hard. He spent weeks, months, under the patient tutelage of Lieut. Frederick H. Becker at the Curtiss Field School. He got along all right when Becker was with him. But on his first solo flight he sat frozen at the controls, and missed collision in a crowded sky by sheer...
...journalist, will be guest. From Cuba to Central America, South America and the close-linked West Indies, he planned to circle the famed buccaneer waters. Last week his new plane, the Liberty, was being tuned up at Mitchel Field, L. I. She is a three-ton yacht of the air, with luxurious cabin, two motors of 520 horsepower each, speed of 140 miles per hour. She cost...
During the War he was chief of the air service finance division...
...January 1912. Shackleton almost got there in January 1909. All three, like Commander Byrd, approached through the Ross Sea, the deep bite into the Asiatic side of Antarctica. Explorer Wilkins is trying from the American side. His distance, from Deception Island, to the Pole is approximately 1,900 miles (air way). That is about the same as the distance ships must go between Galveston and Manhattan, Baltimore and the Barbados...