Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been rated according to its fuel consumption, manageability, carrying power, and other qualities, leaving it up to the pilots to gain further points by good speed and navigation in getting from point to point. Not a great deal of figuring was needed to award first prize to Pilot Walter Beach and his Wright-motored Travel Air No. 2. With perfect equipment, and higher speed than most, he had been able to leave the stopping places last and arrive at destinations irst; also, he was aided by an able navigator, Brice Goldsborough of the Pioneer Instrument Co. Notable was the failure...
...sentimental cinemas; and above all the fact that he did not want to fight Negro Harry Wills have all weighed against him. Furthermore, Dempsey is a lowbrow. His grammar is gummy at the edges; he reads The Czar's Spy, by William Le Queux, The Spoilers, by Rex Beach, and makes no bones about his ignorance of philosophy. Pinochle is his favorite game, and he addresses his butler as "Babe." It is said that this butler has irritated Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey. A thin figure with splayed hands and a broken nose, he moves about the halls...
...hands once more in the grease pail. "Put your bathing suit on," she directed over her shoulder. More grease was applied to the strong stumpy body, clad now in a thin racing suit, cut away deeply under the arms. Gertrude Ederle (pronounced "Ed-er-ly") ran across the beach into the surf, briefly acknowledging the cheers of the crowd that had come to see her off. It was cold, she remarked as she felt the water, colder than last year. She struck out for England. When, after 14 hours and 31 minutes in the water, she had landed at Kingsdown...
...late famed publisher of the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer; to Mrs. Gladys Munn Amory, of Washington, D. C. Since serving as an aviator in the World War, he has traveled through Russia as foreign correspondent for the World; hunted antelope in Northern Rhodesia; idled at Palm Beach, Paris. She, in 1913, married Charles Minot Amory, Boston social arbiter, graduate of Grpton, Harvard; she divorced...
...holiday in Port Darwin, Australia. Bunting fluttered in the streets. August sunshine beat down on the white-powdered road out to Mindil Beach, where the Timor Sea lay breathless blue under an offshore breeze. Soon after breakfast time, the beachward procession began-Port Darwin merchants cool in their white ducks; bronzed " 'roos" ("Kangaroos," i.e. Australians) from the cattle country; darker aborigines shuffling along in silent excitement; cooing Chinese in bright pajamas. They watched the horizon all morning. Some had gone home for midday tiffin, but most remained, chattering, scanning, pondering, when a school urchin jumped forward, his eyes bulging...