Word: dieudonnã
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Costes v. LeBrix. Last week Dieudonn?? Costes and Joseph LeBrix, onetime friends who became grumpy enemies while flying around the world together (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927), started to fly from Paris to France's Indo-China. Their flights were separate and bitterly competitive?for the glory of first covering the distance in five days...
...Dieudonn?? Costes' rueful exclamation was all the chagrin of frustrated egotism...
They flew to Washington where, at the French ambassador's, Joseph LeBrix tried to punch Dieudonn?? Costes' nose in the American manner. The French foot-fighting against the one-legged flyer manifestly would have been dastardly. For appearance's sake they restrained the show of their animosity as they flew across the U. S., as they sailed by ship to Japan, as again they flew across Asia and Europe, to Le Bourget Field at Paris. And there Flyer LeBrix had his great say. It was, harshly: "At last I have finished being valet to Costes...
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