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...arose at 6:30 a. m., worked on his own plane Spirit of St. Louis, at Le Bourget airport. Then he left the soil of France, circled the Eiffel Tower twice, flew low over the Arc de Triomphe, dropped a farewell message on the Place de la Concorde. It read: "Goodbye, dear Paris. Ten thousand thanks for your kindness...
...Joan of Arc. In the Autobiography, Mark Twain tells of the difficulty an audience once had to divine the meaning of a charade acted by small Susy and small
...then the maiden paused, as if to catch a distant strain. Like an alabaster monument of Joan of Arc she seemed to stand the guardian vestal of the light that dwells in the Hallelujah-and-Amen type of evangelism. And as she spoke her thin childish voice quavered...
...center is no longer required to stand with his feet entirely inside the circle but each foot is in a legal position if any part of it touches the arc or is inside the arc...
...reach a ship with a doctor. It did, however, make contact with the U. S. S. West Calumb going north from Buenos Aires to Boston. Doctorless too, the West Calumb's captain sent his wireless calls fingering until he made contact with the French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc. Then it became relatively simple for the seamen's symptoms to be relayed by the West Calumb and translated to the French doctors, who relayed back pertinent prescriptions. The sick seamen survived. The story was told when the West Calumb reached Boston last week...