Word: darien
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...upper spaces of the Atlantic heavens a man is pushing his way from New York to Paris on a non-stop flight. Captain Charles A. Lindbergh in his plane. The Spirit of St. Louis, keeps alive and energetic an ancient tradition, the tradition which sent men into peaks in Darien and sends men up the frigid sides of Mt. Everest...
...Navy were in the habit of indulging in spectacles, it might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive...
Marie of Roumania and Ji amie Walker in a new high hat with peaks on his lapels like unto those of Darien, Marie of Roumania and the President of the United States with a smile like unto that featured the day he caught a minnow in the Adirondacks, Marie of Roumania and Fifth Avenue, Marie of Roumania and Gopher Prairie, Marie of Roumania and the Grand Canon, Marie and the Pacific, Marie! Thus does the American press take to its heart the beloved of the Balkins and worry those who, with absurd faith in the direct desire of all Americans...
...wish he had expressed, across the Atlantic. He was laid near the scenes of his crassest cruelty; and has lain there until history and romance have bleached his fame, torn off the invincible armor, and have feigned, at least, to see "stout Cortez", "silent, upon a peak in Darien...
...seafloor. There must also be rarer minerals, unimagined fishes, unguessable vestiges of the planet's youth. And even should nothing of "practical" value be found, the divers may experience the exaltation of explorers as intrepid as any that ever served Science-silent, in an abyss off Darien...