Word: alighting
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...eyes with joy alight...
Airplanes on skis are just completed for the Canadian air mail. The pilots will thereby be able to alight on smooth snow or ice surfaces with sacks of Christmas mail. The same equipment is to be fitted to Commander Richard Byrd's three planes which are planned to circle the South Pole...
...Germany. About $100,000 rests unclaimed. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin posted $25,000 for a flight from Europe to Philadelphia; the Boston Chamber of Commerce pledged $25,-000 for a flight from Europe to Boston; the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce will give $25,000 for a plane to alight in Cleveland from Paris. Sir John Carling offered $25,000 for a flight between London, Ontario, and London, England...
...astonishingly fragile moths, dusted with gold, who first distract football behemoths at col lege proms; then able young busi ness men at country club week ends; then men-about-town, reputable and otherwise. These moths cease to discriminate as their pow er and need of distraction increase. Sometimes they alight safely, their powdery gold dusts away and they become more or less plumply con tented. Other times, especially if their wits are as nimble as their wings, they keep going until they fall, perhaps under a public chandelier, perhaps into a highball glass...
...form used last week by Signor Turati: "When we become really free and strong, then, and then only, will the treasures of our great past and our glorious his tory be really ours. Then the Roman eagles will resume their flight again. Where will they alight? It matters not, if the flight be strenuous and the victory great...