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...said: "During that week nature is waking her sleeping children from their winter sleep, the invigorating breezes are blowing, the flowers are bursting into bloom, the trees are fixing to robe themselves in their glorious garments of green, and the peaceful valleys and hillsides are spreading their blue bonnet carpet...
...keeps it. His chief mechanic, Leo Villa, helped him start the motors five miles above the measured mile course. Sitting low, looking through a streamlined pocket of glass at a motor-revolution gauge which looks like a rifle sight on the profile of Blue Bird's is-ft. bonnet, he gathered speed going south along the beach. Nearing the grandstand at the start of the mile, the sound of Bine Bird's motor was first a low undertone to the warm purr of the surf, then a thundering roar, then a mighty shout of speed and wind...
...most elusive miracle of all-bring the dead back to life." After reading Wellington you will admit that Guedalla knows his business, has done his duty. Almost painfully witty in conversation, in writing he-is refreshingly so. Other books: The Second Empire, Masters & Men, Fathers of the Revolution, Palmerston, Bonnet & Shawl...
Feverish bustle, anxious conjecture filled Buckingham Palace on election day this week. Outside, London wallowed in a yellow pea-soup fog. Below stairs, Royal scullery, parlor and chamber maids made no secret of their voting intentions as they hustled into bonnet and wrap, groped in a body out the fogbound back gate. Two footmen, the Palace womenfolk considered, were the only possible waverers. They had expressed Socialist opinions at the height of a servants' ball last year, but not since. One of these very footmen brought to the Royal study the latest newspapers for which George V repeatedly buzzed...
...others: Giovanni Monti, killed three weeks ago at Lake Garda; Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, died of injuries after a test flight crash last May; Tomaso Dal Molin, killed testing a plane in 1930; Lieut. Bonnet killed training for the races in 1929; Capt. Giuseppe Motta, killed testing a plane for the 1929 races; Lieut. F.R. Buse whose plane crashed on the Potomac in 1928; Lieut. Kinkead who crashed on the Solent...