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...stowed in its lair within the ship. . . . Just south of Gilroy, Calif, dense fog rolled inland from Monterey Bay up to about 2,000 ft. The coast line was not sighted but after determining by dead reckoning and bearings on mountain peaks that we had crossed the coast we dove blindly into the fog and at about 1,200 ft. found its bottom layer. . . . Proceeding overland via Beaumont and Banning battling every inch against blistering, boisterous blasts from the desert and surrounding mountains. Even at 4,000 ft. the temperature was 94?...
...Danish Jens Peter Jacobsen. Waldemar loved Tove (Soprano Vreeland) with a deathless love, kept her in a castle at Gurre near Elsinore where royal Hamlet lived. Softly, exquisitely the strings described their passion for one another. Then Helvig, Waldemar's shrewish wife, lad Tove killed. A wood dove (Contralto Bampton) told the tragedy, how Tove's heart was still and the King's own heart strong still, dead and yet strong. . . . It was intermission. In the bleachers the choristers, who had not sung at all, stood up, stretched their legs as if the sixth inning...
...inventor poised, 5-11. wings outspread, on the rail of a highway bridge over the Thames River. Presently he took off, plunked straight down 35 feet into the icy water. Extricating himself with difficulty, Bat Man Blain was picked up by a motorboat from which he proudly dove again into the water and swam ashore. The bat wings floated, were retrieved. Said he: "If the wind had been stronger I could have flown much farther. Anyhow, I hope I gave the world a thrill...
...Calling at the White House, Charles R. Abbott, executive director of the American Institute of Steel Construction, told the President: "Politically you are becoming stronger and stronger every day." Billie Dove, cinemactress (Cock o' the Air), also visited Mr. Hoover, told him he "looked well...
...Council of the League of Nations had just convoked the League Assembly to meet on March 3 apropos of Japan and it was this fact which had caused the president of Harvard and Cleveland's Baker to hatch their dynamite. Excerpt from this egg, laid metaphorically by the Dove of Peace: "If it shall be found [by the League Assembly] that Japan has resorted to war without submitting the dispute to arbitration, judicial settlement or to the Council-none of which has been done-it will be the covenanted duty of all the members of the League to prohibit...