Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BALLOON-A Comedy in Four Acts- Padriac Colum-Macmillan ($2). Caspar rents his telescope in the Square (Act 1) in Megalapolis, a city much like Dublin. He deserts his trade to do a heroic thing: to go into the Hotel Daedalus, first to its Cafe (Act 2), then higher to its Hall of Palms (Act 3), then finally to its Roof Garden (Act 4). In all three places he asks this question: "Is a man born a hero or does he become a hero by doing heroic things?" In the Cafe, when a woman eyes him through a lorgnette...
...race to see who shall represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Cup Race abroad. Night came on. Rain, snow, conflicting winds buffeted the bags. Some bumped into mountains, crashed into barns. One was almost run down by a night-flying mail plane. Day broke. Two of the balloons descended, discovered they had been blown in circles all night, were only 27 and 32 miles from Pittsburgh. One other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy No. 1, piloted...
...reintroducing old American sporting customs, a ride to hounds, a balloon ascension, and a drag-chase to Boston Common are the promised triple threat of the Lampoon members for this afternoon, it was stated last night...
...Ingalls was that unit's bright particular flower. Over seas Mr. Ingalls was attached to an English squadron over which he, still in his 'teens, was soon given command. In two months duty in the Dunkirk sector he brought down six German planes and a balloon. He was the only U.S. naval flyer to become an ace, that is, to bring down five or more planes. Returned from the War, Ace Ingalls received the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal and the British Flying Cross. He returned to Yale to finish his college course, later was graduated from the Harvard...
Died. Walter Scherz, trans-Atlantic helmsman of the dirigibles Los Angeles (1924) and Graf Zeppelin (1928); of balloon gas poisoning; in Friederichshafen, Germany...