Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tired. Though no Congressman, he had been working hard with Congress and now, upon its adjournment, he was going home. His physician had advised him to take a long summer's rest, to camp and fish in the open, to fill his lungs with fresh Pacific air. As he started on his transcontinental motor trip, he might easily have been mistaken for a successful doctor or a famed lawyer. But he was neither. He was Clarence True Wilson, A. B., B. D., Ph. B., D. D., LL. D., executive secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals...
High over the Austrian and Swiss Alps last week drifted a mountainous white cloud. Slowly it flattened out until it covered most of Bavaria and the lower Rhineland, hung motionless in the air for three days. Astronomer Director Wolf of the Königstuhl Observatory near Heidelberg squinted at the white pall through telescopes and announced that it was a mass of finely powdered lava blown high in the air from erupting Vesuvius (TIME. June 17). He warned Bavarians to expect the usual volcanic twilight phenomenon - the whole sky turning orange at sunset and staying so long after...
...brother, or the nightwatchman, or the fellow who is in love with her. You guess all the time that the director did it, so you are disappointed to find in the end that you were right. The comedy supplied by Neil Hamilton is supposed to open windows so that air can freshen up the suspense, but Hamilton gets boring and the technical detail is much too sloppy for a murder story. Best shot: the murdered man sitting in a chair usually reserved for a stage dummy...
...air the flyers discovered why their tail had drooped at the take-off?the stowaway was there. They decided not to throw him overboard. To lighten the load they had dispensed with thermos bottles, victuals and other comforts. They had taken less than their full capacity of gas. Jean Assolant, married only three days to Pauline Parker, pretty Manhattan chorus girl, had refused to take her. But that hulking, selfish boy was with them. His unexpected weight prevented their reaching French soil...
Last week Charles A. Levine, famed air passenger, drove his automobile 60 m.p.h. at Far Rockaway, L. I., was arrested, paid a $25 fine. After receiving the fine, the judge climbed down from his bench, handshook Passenger Levine...