Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pillar of Fire Church. Bishop White, who has thousands of disciples ("Holy Jumpers") in the British Isles, clearly regarded Mrs. McPherson as a poacher upon her preserves or worse. Squired by two male Deacons, the Reverend Bishop sat herself down in a box at Albert Hall, with an air of purposing to break up the revival. The dread potency of Bishop White, when aroused against another female, may be judged from her scathing criticisms of the Church of Mary Baker Eddy: "The teachings of the so-called Christian Science Church . . . have drawn multitudes from the orthodox faith, and blasted their...
Wilbur at 8.15-"Take The Air". Gosh, do we have to say something about this again? Its pretty good,-how's that? And if you want to know any more look in the Crimsons of last week, or the week before that, or the week before that...
Conspicuous among the passengers booked for the Atlantic trip were C. E. Rosendahl, commander of the Los Angeles; Count Brandenstein Zeppelin, 30n-in-law of the late great Count; Herr Brandenburg, chief of the German Air Ministry; Lady Drummond Hay,* Hearst correspondent, who will be the first woman ever to have made such a crossing. During the trial flight she wrote: "It is a strange sensation, sleeping in cabins attached to gas bags swinging 7,000 feet in the air between the full moon and the glassy North Sea. . . . We have a million cubic feet of gas but no heat...
After several postponements the Graf Zeppelin stood ready, its 18 hydrogen bags prepared to lift 121 tons into the air for its motors to drive over the Atlantic at from 70 to 84 miles per hour...
Give over, air my mind...