Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dropped from sight. Nor could the chaos which followed peace in Germany prove any more tempting to foreign interests than the state of actual war. Sofa to say, that America would ever treat with importance the conditions extant in German universities while the mark was tied to a toy balloon...
...Harvey Firestone ought to send some complimentary balloon tires to the British colonial office instead of firing a couple of congressional popguns...
...That balloon tires and four-wheel brakes, obviously here to stay, were standard equipment on most cars above...
Life's little jokes include none more guileless than the pricked balloon. No one is hurt, some one is embarrassed, and every one laughs. On the score of such a harmless deflation, so the New York Times relates, the Burgomaster of Roosdorf in Hessen is now a blushing Quixote...
...Another instance occurred in 1917, near Ypres, where a British aviator shot down a kite balloon and then tried to machine-gun the crew as they escaped in parachutes. This was against the code, and the German commander had a note dropped in a British aerodrome. Finally, owing to the efforts of the British airmen, the individual who had shot at men in parachutes was located through his report on downing the balloon. The General in command interrogated him, and on corroborating the German charge of unsportsmanlike conduct sent the man home in disgrace and informed the Germans...