Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading south, last fortnight, President-Reject Alfred Emanuel Smith paused at Savannah, Ga., to slide down a brass pole and thereby amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites...
...Hugo Eckener received the lighter-than-air trophy for his command of the Graf Zeppelin. His peer for 1927 was Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl of the U. S. S. Los Angeles. Lady Mary Bailey was the best woman flyer last year, Lady Mary Heath the next best. Each flew between London and Capetown, in opposite directions. "Best flyers" designated for various countries...
...test for Harvard's quintet. So far it has won four games and lost only one. The single defeat was at the hands of the M. I. T. team, which has an untarnished record so far this season. The Crimson has been further strengthened by the presence of Joseph Bailey '29, who played on his Freshman team, but who has not appeared since because of ineligibility. S. G. Burns '30, in the position of guard, is showing remarkable promise. Burns is one of the two football men who are out, W. R. Harper '30 being the other...
...Lady Bailey flew from London to Cape Town one week faster than Lady Heath flew from Cape Town to London (TIME, April...
...Bailey Court, London, last fortnight, one Robert Williams, carpenter, said he had killed an Irish housemaid in Hyde Park because he had been seized with an epileptic fit during which he saw the face of Lon Chaney, famed U. S. cinemactor. On the day before the killing, Carpenter Williams said he had viewed the film, London After Midnight, featuring Mr. Chaney...