Word: dare-devil
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...copilots were Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, a portly, moon-faced Navy officer; and Roland J. Blair who, like Pilot Van Orman, works for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.) There was white-shocked Capt. Horace B. Wild, 61, who 40 years ago exhibited two 'chute-jumping goats and later (1905) became the dare-devil aeronaut of Chicago's "White City" amusement park. His eyes are still red and watery from a 1910 crash which all but cost him his sight. With him was Roy Knabenshue who barnstormed for years with Capt. Wild in their dangerous little "rubber cows" (small dirigibles...
Again Christofersen. Exactly 20 years ago the late Silas Christofersen, early dare-devil flyer of the West, flew a flimsy home-made plane off the roof of Portland, Ore.'s Multonomah Hotel. Last week his widow left Seattle to salvage by plane a fur ship abandoned off Point Barrow, Alaska...
Died-John Munroe, 64, pioneer publisher (with his father) of paperback dime novels ("Fireside Library" series, Dare-devil Dick); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...office in the House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against him; the $7,500 slander suit his secretary, Miss Ethelyn Crane, won against him; the 1? verdict he was awarded in a breach of promise suit against Miss Crane; his desire to be the "dare-devil aviator of Congress" and his purchase of many an old Army plane that would...
...world, and when Italy was itching to use the excuse of "revolution" to intervene, Mr. Washburn saw that such a coup could best be prevented by smuggling out of the facts, the news. He and another U. S. Minister in an adjoining country somewhat exceeded their authority, ran a dare-devil courier service, kept the world informed, kept what they had done from the knowledge of all but a few grateful correspondents...