Word: augustus
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...blond hair, loneliness and lack of ignoble motives. The actual lobbying, which usually consists in more or less furtive arguments by adroit advocates in the corridors and committee rooms of Congress, in this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would ever thereafter vote against any air law that may be endorsed by Lobbyist Lindbergh...
...things that sound like lies, and then prove them to be absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh was the 67th man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Three thousand indignant letter-writers demanded that Mr. Ripley apologize. He calmly informed them that Alcock and Brown made a nonstop flight between Newfoundland and Ireland...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh recently called on Postmaster General Harry Stewart New. He saw a bust of himself standing on the mantlepiece, looked at it with a pained expression, said: "Don't like it. Makes me look like a high school debater...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
This year, as usual, the show came in like a mad March lion. It was noted that two themes had preoccupied the attention of many of the most absurd artists; one was Death, the other was Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Novel materials for expressing alleged thoughts were few in number; the most noteworthy was a three dimensional drawing, or skeleton sculpture, of a she-wolf giving suck to two small boys. The lines of the she-wolf's body were indicated in copper wire; her mammary glands were represented by door stops. Of the other exhibits...