Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Budapest, Hungary. "Wearied of aeroplaning, I took a wagon-lit (sleeping car) from Belgrade to Budapest-the city that has fallen heir to the gayety that was Vienna...
...year.' Now comes the Rev. Mr. C. Daniels-once a pilot in the Royal Air Force -whose parish in New South Wales is as extensive as all England, with a request that the Anglican Church Missionary Society buy him a plane to expedite his parish visits. His motor car too frequently stalls in mud. His camel is painfully slow. The Society will buy him a 'moth light' De Havilland...
...Edward Brown, 12, who was following his father's party around the course. Frantic, Dr. Brown carried his son to the street, was heartened by the offer of transportation from Building Commissioner John W. Moore, driving by at the moment. Mr. Moore drove a few minutes, stopped the car, got out, said: "I'm too nervous to drive. Take the car and go on." From the curb, he watched Dr. Brown drive off, collapsed, died...
After lunch the squad, coaches and managers left by bus for. White River Junction, where they boarded a special Pullman car to complete the journey to Cambridge by train. The busses pulled out amid the cheers of 1100 students and the playing of the college band. Practically the entire student body of 2200 students and the band will leave on two special trains at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. An athletic holiday has been granted over the week end so Hanover will be a deserted village tomorrow night...
...With me were J. L. Shute and Edgar Barrier, a Columbia graduate. The roadway was wet and I applied all the brakes we had to slow us up a bit. Naturally, 'Jezebel's' brakes burned out and we dashed down at terrific speed. At the bottom, we hit another car, demolishing it, and then flattened five concrete posts before, turning over in a ditch. Shute and I went out through the roof at the first collision, but Barrier was pinned down and had his arm broken...