Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student wakes up to the buzzing of his alarm clock at twenty minutes to ten. Before he has had time to compose himself for a last nap before his ten o'clock class the Catholic Church east of the Gold Coast chimes a mellifluous quarter hour and it is time for him to get up. At Arthur's ten minutes later it is still quarter to ten; so, reassured, he sits down to hearty breakfast. At ten precisely he begins his leisurely stroll to class until he casually glances up at the Memorial Hall to find to his consternation that...
...They found "jointly responsible" for the collision the commanding officers of both ships-dead Lieut. Commander Roy K. Jones of the gored submarine and living Lieut. Commander John S. Baylis of the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding...
...controversy was the Treasury Department v. the Navy Department. Secretary Mellon wrote a long, tart letter to Secretary Wilbur, reviewing the evidence and refusing to let any blame attach to Coast Guardsman Baylis. A like issue was joined by Navy men in defense of Lieut. Commander Jones. With the Treasury Department on the Paulding's side and with Jones unhappily dead, one of these arguments seemed academic, the other lamentable and futile...
Harry Brooks, chief test pilot of the Stout-Ford Airplane Co., carrier of Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico, plunged into the sea off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., in a "flivver" plane of his own design. The wreckage was found afloat next day, but of Pilot Brooks there was no trace. He had hoped to see the day when his air "flivvers" would be in the hands of millions...
...onetime husband as impersonally as to a street car conductor. "What's the old man doing now?" queried she. He has be-become comparatively obscure, has attempted to contribute to the letter columns of various dailies. But she has been traveling the "big time" vaudeville circuit, from coast to coast, during the last year...