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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mighty Jesus." In a biplane named Jesus del Gran Poder (Mighty Jesus) Spanish Flyers Francisco Jiminez and Ignacio Iglesias last week flew from Seville on a non-stop flight to Rio de Janeiro. They landed at Bahia, 4,100 miles from Seville, refueled and proceeded to Rio, whence they expect to go to Buenos Aires. Their flight is one of the longest on record...
General John Joseph Pershing, changed by Time and the War from hardboiled brigadier to dapper boulevardier, stepped with his crisp cock-robin stride from the Place de la Concorde into the ornate lobby of the Hotel Crillon. An excited reporter from the Paris Herald rushed...
Everywhere in Paris people mourned le brave Herrick. The ambassador, 74, had insisted five days before on taking full part in the funeral of his friend Marshal Foch (TIME, April i). He stood bareheaded in the cold mist at the Arc de Triomphe and walked in the cortege all the way from Notre Dame to Les Invalides. Two days later he complained of a cold. He went to bed. The next day heart specialists were called in. Parmely Herrick, the Ambassador's son, was called by trans-Atlantic telephone at his home near Cleveland. Just before dusk on Easter Sunday...
...whoopee, though at one time 1,200 were erroneously described as dead. Some day however the pepper battle of Cocula ought to be famous. The town itself is unimportant, but there is a church, and last week there was a machine gun in the belfry-a federal gun. "Sangre de Dios!" cried the captain of a band of Insurrectos which had surprised this little federal outpost, "Blood of Christ, bring me chili, bring me peppers!" Armfuls and armfuls of dried chili were stacked on the windward side of the steeple by artful Insurrectos who took care to work under...
...Certain degenerate courtiers of dissolute Louis XV claimed to derive exquisite sensations from a partial hanging of this type, which they called Le Coup de Corde. Many experienced hangmen maintain, and so does Novelist James Joyce, that the sensations of a man at the moment he is hanged are by no means always unpleasant, to judge from spasmodic reactions often observed...