Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unsatisfied were Daytonians who, hearing of his proposed call, had planned speeches, celebrations. Deprived of demonstrations, the Daytonians muttered and scowled. Said their police chief, "A dirty, backalley trick." Their mayor, Allen C. McDonald, said: ". . . Dayton will not soon forget." Said a sarcastic department store, five days after, using Colonel Lindbergh's visit for self-advertising to draw attention to their "spirit of economy" bargain sale: "There will be no disappointments in this demonstration...
...title of Colonel, as did Col. Edward M. House, from an appointment to the staff of the Governor of Texas. He has lost one leg; the other is slightly rheumatic?so he rides about in an electric car over the seven miles of paved roads on his estate. A genial squire and patron, he keeps 300 employees, has 32 residences for them...
...Charles A. Lindbergh? Putnam, ($2.50). This book has been the subject of much gossip. At first, it was erroneously reputed to be an expansion of Colonel Lindbergh's signed articles in the New York Times. Its publication date was delayed nearly a month. Skeptics said that the author-aviator was having disagreements with his publishers...
...that "WE" is put, there is no doubt that it is original material from Colonel Lindbergh's own pen, that he took great pains and a reasonable length of time in writing it. It is an ungarnished autobiography, beginning with the sentence: "I was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1902." Many a garrulous autobiographer might well follow Colonel Lindbergh's example of omitting the personal parsley...
Wisely, modestly, Colonel Lindbergh has devoted far more space to such events and to his training days at Army camps than to the deed which the U. S. has recorded on the same page with Washington crossing the Delaware and Peary reaching the Pole...