Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowded with darting pencils around Baron Adolph George Otto Ago von Maltzan last week in Berlin. They heard the Baron tell with gusto about "my wonderful trip through America." His words had weight and interest because Baron von Maltzan is German Ambassador to the U. S. Home on a brief vacation, he said...
...Haven, Conn., in San Francisco, and hither and yon for the Associated Press?before ever he sold a novel; and that even now his literary technique is regarded by critics simply as superlative journalese. They fancied Sinclair Lewis could do as much with the aftermath of a brief city riot as most correspondents could do with a full-fledged civil war. They were right...
...Holmes Herty of Manhattan proposed a game for undergraduate chemists-let them try to find new uses for the many strange derivations that analysts have obtained from petroleum and other raw materials. Gassing a City. Dr. Harry Nicholls Holmes of Oberlin College (Ohio) took up the chemist's brief for gas warfare. He suggested that some city of perhaps 10,000 population be given about as much warning as it would get in wartime, that gas masks and other protection be provided for the citizens and "possibly . . . horses," that the city then be gassed. This would show, thought...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, hero of many hours, returned again to his rose-strewn path after a brief detour to transact private business in Washington and Manhattan. The path led him to Ottawa, Canada, at the head of a whizzing formation of twelve U. S. Army planes from Selfridge Field, near Detroit. He and the Spirit of St. Louis made a perfect landing to the huzzahs of a crowd assembled for Canada's Diamond Jubilee (TIME, July 4). One of his escort, Lieut. J. Thad Johnson, was less fortunate. Circling in a close triad formation while the plane of honor...
...port) a heavily loaded biplane floundered down upon a wheat field, smashed its landing gear. There was an ear-splitting explosion, followed by the crackle of flames. From each side of the plane leaped two burning figures. They rolled in the wheat, saving their lives. Thus, ended the brief flight of Capt. Georges Pelletier Doisy and his navigator, M. Gonin, who had set out to break, by flying 4,400 miles from Paris to India, the world's non-stop record (held by Flyers Chamberlin and Levine...