Word: artagnans
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...explain more or less formally that he was about to fly across the Atlantic, starting from Roosevelt Field, L. I. The Man. In uniform, Captain Fonck is heavily encrusted with medals, palms and citations, as befits the youngest (aged 31) officer of the Legion of Honor, the "D'Artagnan of the Air." None shot down more planes than he, either during one day (6 for Fonck, with but 10 bullets each) or during the whole war (75 for Fonck, the first 32 without permitting a single bullet-hole in his own plane). His long light hair lies smoothly...
...entered in championship meets in and around New York City and this year's team is believed to overtop even the skilful team of last year. The Saltus Club is a French organization, sometimes called the French Y. M. C. A., and many technical descendants of d'Artagnan have been developed in its Salle d'Armes...
...Artagnan, hero of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, is to be honored by the citizens of Auch in Gascony by the erection of a statue. D'Artagnan, Captain of the King's Musketeers, was, in reality, Charles de Baatz Castelmore, born at Meymes, near Aignan...
...said that the historical romances of Alexandre Dumas are in more demand at the Public Library than any other fiction. Doubtless the books most read are "The Three Musketeers," "Twenty Years After" and "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," in which the intrepid d'Artagnan holds the front of the stage as a young blade who never refuses a passage at anms, as a mature fighting man whose wrist is steadier and whose judgement more sure, and as a veteran whose character has become nobler with his years and whose valor remains equal to any test. It must have been with...
...Angeles is a D'Artagnan who has touched the imagination of the war-weary, strike-disgusted, politics-stuffed world. It is a city doing the impossible. Hundreds of thousands have come, are coming-the new type of pioneer. . . . Los Angeles dominates the old-world, has 1,050,000 people, ranks third place in building for 1923, leads in intercoastal shipping and has the most unique Little Theatre in America. If John Doe leaves your town for Los Angeles folks are far more interested in what he is doing than if he goes to New York, or Chicago...