Word: capt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. One, Lady Mary Bailey, with a mad flourish of acrobatics, hopped across Europe on her lonesome way to Cape Town, Africa. The other, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, madcap daughter of James Lyle Mackay, Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, muffled herself almost beyond recognition and stealthily departed with one-eyed Capt. Walter G. R. Hinch-liffe on the treacherous flight across the Atlantic, Westward...
Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way. Miss Mackay, with Capt. Hinchliffe and their golden-winged monoplane Endeavor, is in the limbo of the lost...
...Watched and cheered while Vice President Dawes presented the Daytona Beach trophy to Capt. Malcolm Campbell, motor racing Briton...
...precaution of planting a machine gun to command the valley. Despatches differed as to whether it was the Marines or the Sandinistas who were most surprised. The outcome, disgraceful to the U. S. Marine scouting service, was a prolonged pitched engagement. Only the fact that another Marine patrol, under Capt. William McNulty was in the vicinity, and rushed up at the sound of firing, prevented an ugly outcome. Eventually, the Sandinistas were driven to withdraw into the underbrush, and jungles, which is their natural and protective element...
...maximum altitude was 38,559 ft., reached by Lieut. C. C. Champion in 1927. Capt. H. C. Gray of the U. S. Air Service was credited with a, balloon altitude of 44,000 in 1927, but this figure cannot be verified as Capt. Gray was killed during the flight...