Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Mario de Bernardi, hero of the 1926 Schneider Cup race, when Italy wrested the trophy from the U. S., was the first to obey Mussolini's command. Already the holder of the seaplane speed record, he went up last March and averaged 318.57 miles an hour over a measured course, beating his own record by more than 20 miles (TIME, April...
...echoes of this achievement died down when two veteran Italian aviators turned to the record business in earnest. Captain Arturo Ferrarin, 32-year-old War veteran, pilot of bombers and pursuit planes, was a member of the victorious 1926 Schneider Cup team. Major Carlo P. Delprete accompanied Commander Francesco de Pinedo on his tour of the Americas in 1927. No tyros, these two airmen chose a thick-winged Savoia-Marchetti monoplane, set out to break the endurance record won for the U. S. by Stinson and Haldeman. They remained in the air 58 hours and 34 minutes, bringing another major...
...cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker, and dedicated to the memory of the soldiers who had been killed at Verdun; he made the grating that sur rounds the perpetual fire under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris...
...than she was at first, flung herself here and there in the motions of a new dance called Pickin' Cotton. Frances Williams shuffled also while she sang a song of which the words were "What d'ya Say?" Creeping forth from his cool cabaret with enhanced joie de vivre, Harry Richman shouted "I'm on the crest of a wave. . . ." As in all of Producer White's assemblies, the footwork in the Scandals was swift and spry, attended to by Tom Patricola, a pair of coordinated sisters, a well-coached chorus, and Producer White in person...
Said Lawyer Miller's opponent, Assistant District Attorney de Moe: "The monkey wouldn't have bitten those children...