Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh ("Good Will") has been stained in glass for a window of the Trinity Methodist-Episcopal Church of Springfield, Mass. Other large figures in the window: John Wesley ("Evangelism"), Bishop Phillips Brooks ("Prophecy"). Other smaller figures: Columbus, Bach, Shakespeare, Frank Billings Kellogg...
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics MacCracken exercised his persuasive powers, induced Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh to fly from New York to Washington last week, to tell a joint committee of Congress what sort of airport the capital ought to have. To the Committee, headed by air-minded Senator Bingham of Connecticut, Col. Lindbergh laid down the following specifications...
Died. George Augustus Peabody, 97, of Danvers, Mass., oldest living graduate of Harvard College (1852), gentleman farmer, big game hunter, world traveler; in Danvers. Among his classmates was the late Joseph Hodges Choate, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Tailor and Cutter spoke editorially for his trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh opened his mouth last week in the Manhattan offices of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, to explain to reporters the plans of the Transcontinental Air Transport Co. of which he is "technical adviser." As he (lid so, something escaped about his outlook on his own future. Asked about an age limit for pilots, he replied: "I can't recognize that there is any limit. I will continue flying until I am no more able to handle a machine...