Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's Senator Copeland is a physician. He has crusaded for fresh air in the Senate chamber. Last week he went to the White House, sniffed the air in the President's office, remarked professionally that it was much too hot. President Hoover got up and raised the window...
Last October-just before the election-President Coolidge announced that he was troubled by the prospect of a deficit next June 30. He could see only the "narrowest margin between revenue and expenditures." An air of anxiety, if not gloom, was thus cast over the Treasury-in voters' minds. The conservative conclusion could only be: If a deficit threatens, let us not change horses, i.e., political party control, in midstream. The President's announcement was also used as a fiscal hackamore to make Congress stand hitched...
During the winter, the activities of the club have been confined to overhauling their ship, a Travel-Air biplane with a Curtis OXX-6 engine, but within the next few days, they plan to start regular operations, with occasional cross-country flights...
...twentieth century mind seems unwilling to accept characters and incidents hung in mid-air by an author's fancy. Proust, Joyce. "Orlando." "Death Comes to the Archbishop," and may I say my own work all verge into the province of memories, diaries, historical narrative, and autobiography...
...calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...