Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recessed to receive Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
...Recessed to receive Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
Thus Hero Richard Evelyn Byrd to a small niece last week. Modern heroes do not have the fun of telling and retelling their exploits. All that is so fully told in advance by syndicate writers and radio that even small nieces know it. Modern heroes must, in fact, go about hearing others tell their story...
...summary of last week's triumphal Byrd Return might be tabulated as follows...
Noise. A New York harborful ? whistles, foghorns, airplane motors; a Broadway canyonful? shouting scores-of-thousands, motor horns, firecrackers, motorcycle sirens; minor outbursts wherever members of the Byrd expedition were recognized for a week following. ("One of the things we missed down there was noise," said Byrd...