Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles. Their nearest competitor was the U. S. Army S-16, which had caught a more southerly wind current and been blown across Germany to Krakow, 373 miles from...
...refused to make any advance statements; said he did not believe in hard and fast editorial "policies" or in dividing a city's readers into "classes." He said, "Folks are folks . . . I'm just a poor boy taking a balloon ride. I don't know where I'll come down...
...Italy, to South America, to Washington, to the U. S. training stations. The "Unit" furnished commanding officers for three air stations; also the nucleus of the Northern Bombing Group. Submarines were bombed, airplanes shot down by "Unit" members; Dave Ingalls became naval ace, with four planes and a balloon to his credit; Di Gates, Commander of an air-station, was recommended for the Congressional medal of honor for heroism. Three* of the "Unit" were killed-two in action. Destroyers were named for these two. Wherever there was naval aviation, there was a "Yale Unit" man. Admiral Sims said: "The great...
That imperturbable quality grows in him. Editors, recognizing his ability, are irritated by his indolence, then struck foolish and speechless by the impersonal tolerance and good Humor with which he takes his leave. Openings are plentiful, for he can pump a column into a gorgeous political balloon and, modeling his style after Edgar Poe's, turn off fiction serials that harrow most satisfactorily. By sheer imperturbability he proceeds on up to the Brooklyn Eagle's staff, departing, when his Abolition feelings get too vigorous for his employers, to take charge of Publisher McClure's new Crescent in New Orleans...
...literary rather than social. Sam Smith is more compelling, as a man than as a "message." And this is strange, for Author Norris writes with more purpose than distinction. Like William Dean Howells, dullness is dear to him. Yet out of a hazy, conventional reconstruction of the Welsbach-burner, balloon-sleeve, trust-forming era of U. S. life, Sam Smith achieves the form and force of actuality. He joins the great company of the memorably commonplace...