Word: airs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard undergraduates may fly to the Michigan game this week-end, according to arrangements now being made by the Colonial Air Transport. "The Harvard Football Special" as the plane, or planes, will be known, will take off from the East Boston Airport either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, according to the wishes of those making reservations...
...Opening of Hawaiian Airways, Ltd., new inter-island air service...
...years Thurston, successor to the late great Kellar, has been extracting rabbits from the collars of old gentlemen's overcoats, smashing expensive watches, bisecting young girls, making them disappear, float in the air. He has had three challenges (in foreign countries) from young men whom he humiliated in public by demonstrating that they concealed a duck on their persons. He began with $00.25, and now has a home on Long Island. In this book he tells his adventures as a showman...
...most sensational "illusion" was chopping off a friend's head. Because women fainted he never repeated it. He is contemptuous of Oriental "magic." Out of three thousand fakirs he examined in India, not one had even heard of the rope trick. (A rope is thrown into the air, is mysteriously suspended while a boy climbs up it, disappears.) The easiest people to fool, says Thurston, are scientists, men-of-letters, psychologists. The hardest are lawyers and preachers because "they do not lose their poise" when invited on the stage...
...there is music in the air before Thursday. This evening the Stradivarius Quartet of New York City will give as the first of their three programs. "Quartet in F major" from Mozart, and Schumann's "Quartet in F Major, Op. 41, No. 2". Four Stradivarius instruments will be used in the concert...