Word: darius
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Persia. I, Xerxes, the great king, the king of kings, the king of the lands of many tribes, the king on this wide, far-stretching earth, the son of Darius the king . . , a Persian son of a Persian, an Aryan of Aryan lineage...
...present, Jumper Sohn will confine his new technique to leaps from airplanes. Said he last week: "House tops are out. That's where Darius Green* was nuts-and he cracked up. I'm going at this thing in a sane...
...Hero of a ballad, Darius Green and His Flying Machine, by John Townsend Trowbridge (1878-1916). Farmboy Green, 14, eager to fly, built homemade wings, jumped from a rooftop, landed unhappily...
...placed Persians abroad for training from which they might return less Persian. "I hope,'' growled the King of Kings, ''that the men we send abroad will realize that civilization is different for every country. The Persian has a mighty tradition behind him, the Empire of Darius! I want to make out of my countrymen the best possible Persians! Ah, there is so much to do! I am always dissatisfied. I cannot do it quickly enough...
...Lithuanian flyers Stephan Darius and Stanley Girenas, who flashed across public consciousness so briefly that few people could repeat their names, were nearly forgotten last week when a horrid rumor grew about their crash at Soldin, Germany, near the Polish border. Every one had accepted the theory that their fuel supply had run out while they were trying to complete their flight from New York to Kovno, Lithuania. But a Lithuanian newspaper hinted that the airplane Lithuanica had been downed by a "death ray" aimed from German soil...