Word: braced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operate commercial aircraft. A decision had to be made, and quickly, for Mme. Boland, famed French aviatrix, was threatening to sue the Commission should its policy of excluding women as commercial pilots be continued. Mme. Boland claimed that dozens of French women, "in these hard times," are anxious to brace their family budgets with the stiff pay of air pilots. Dared the Commission flout the honest aviatrices of France ? Soon Sir Philip Sassoon, British Under-Secretary of State for Air, and Chairman of the Conference, made a gracious announcement: "Beginning immediately, women may apply for licenses to pilot commercial aircraft...
...Another brace of Crimson counters came in the seventh, when Burns walked with one out, Jones filed out, and Zarakov singled. Lord walked, and then Armstrong, Penneylvania second sacker, kicked away Tobin's grounder, Zarakov following Burns across the rubber...
...gained a lead over the first team in the fifth inning when Chase batted out one of Ketchum's offerings for four bases, and then added another tally to its margin in the next frame. The two point total appeared sufficient to hold off the first team, until a brace of tallies was pushed over in the eighth. After holding the second scoreless for the first half of the ninth, the team A players sewed up the game with another pair of counters...
...BAND PLAYS DIXIE-Morris Markey-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Author Markey, the latest recruit to that swelling corps of young Manhattan newsgatherers who write disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely...
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE-Felix Riesenberg - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones...