Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoist cables, the Jump carries couples seated under big umbrellas to the top in 42 seconds, shoots them down in ten. In its first three weeks the Jump fetched 68,000 customers at 40? each, among them Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Attorney General Frank Murphy, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel (thrice), Admiral Byrd (thrice), Musicomedian Victor Moore ("It's too slow going up, too fast coming down"), Bullfighter Sidney Franklin. Other parachuters : a couple who hold the riding record (nine trips), a blind man, a legless War veteran, two drunks who went up with a live duck...
...Lindbergh been a man like Admiral Byrd, had he courted glory, the public would have grown complacent about him soon enough. But because he had an honest literal personality and no need for glory, he was doomed...
...Aloyslus Whalen, honorary LL. D. from New York University (punned orotund Candidate Presenter Harold 0. Voorhis: "Veritably, may we say of this man of the World of Tomorrow as did John Dryden say of Alexander of Macedon, 'None but the Brave deserves the Fair' ") ; Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd, Doctor of Fortitude and Faith, from Pennsylvania's Beaver College. (During the ceremonies, Dr. Byrd's head proved too big for his hood, which had to be unstitched...
...rest of the Senate's economy bloc had either yielded too or, succumbing to political schizophrenia, recast themselves as members of the Senate's farm bloc. When the bill came to a vote, only 14 Senators mustered courage to vote No. Even such Democratic economizers as Adams, Byrd, Byrnes, such Republican economizers as Taft and McNary, had not the political heart to say Nay. Even Carter Glass joined the chorus...
Further plans were made to have a few of the fathers of Freshmen give informal talks in the spring. Although nothing definite has been decided as yet. Edmond B. Spaeth, chairman of the Union Committee, said that he hopes Mr. Benchley and Admiral Byrd will condescend to speak...