Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand that the majority of aeronautical accidents are the pilot's fault and that being up in the air, so long as no one is shooting at you from another plane, is as safe as being on the ground and much more pleasant. Accordingly, the de Sibours would go around the world in a $3,250 airplane which uses 4½ gallons of gas and not quite a pint of oil per hour. It is a blue and silver Moth, named Safari II. The de Sibours will fly only when the weather is right and if they lose their...
...Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Sibour had their hunting clothes sent on to Africa; trunks of tropical clothes together with trifles were despatched to Bombay and Penang. They took with them however in two bags which were stowed into the De Haviland Moth, evening clothes and other proper equipment for polite traveling. At the airdrome, a reporter asked questions which de Sibour answered with a little diatribe on the advantages of aviation. "The running expenses come to $15 per week at maximum. . . . My wife and I haven't been in a train all year. ... If you see an interesting tower...
...present Hungary is ruled by His Serene Highness Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Governor of the Kingdom−which has yet to choose a king. Count Bethlen, virtually a dictator, leans covertly toward the electionists. The legitimists suspect him of wanting to snatch for himself 15-year old Prince Otto's Crown...
...chiefly celebrated for his immortal and exact definition of the taste of Montmartre boite de nuite (night club) champagne...
Meanwhile in Spain there stirred the embers of revolution which always blaze up when His Majesty leaves the country. The latest previous outburst was during Alfonso XIII's visit to George V (TIME, July 23). Last week stern Dictator of Spain Primo de Rivera caused the arrest of 4,000 persons, many prominent, and the revolt guttered. Imperturbable, the Dictator prepared to attend maneuvers of the Spanish Grand Fleet, off the Mediterranean coast of Spain, a coast which is notoriously the hotbed of Spanish revolutionaries...