Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomats, soldiers, scientists stood at Henry Ford's Detroit Airport peering upward at round blobs in the sky. Official Starter Edsel Ford had sent away 15 balloons in the 16th annual Gordon Bennett trophy race. The U. S. and Germany each had three balloons; France, Belgium and Italy two each; England, Spain and Switzerland...
...upon a warrior but upon the family to which he returns. Author Feinstein is a poet. In fact he won the Nation's poetry prize in 1922. Hence his disregard for the pedestrian logic of coherent storytelling. In a fine frenzy of disillusion he causes the hero, named Edsel, to mouth his horror of the corpse-strewn Argonne, what time, back on the family farm, he cuckolds his hayseed brother Hiram. For some reason Hiram's wife, Rebecca, believes in life-weary Edsel as the ambassador of a richer existence. After the bucolic Hiram has fled his shame...
...passed it. The highway had had its face lifted but would do its back hair as always. Acts. That motorists may be obliged to tread their accelerators stoutly to have a front view of any new Fords going their way, was suggested by a statement issued last week by Edsel B. Ford (president of the Ford Motor Co.), the first official announcement in many weeks of rumor. He spoke of the car as "an accomplished fact" and reported the results of the country road test, made one warm summer day over hill and plain, curve and stretch...
...Said Edsel Ford last week: "Byrd is a great fellow. He is a gentleman, a scientist and altogether likeable. I enjoy being behind him in such enterprises." Said Commander Richard E. Byrd: "Both the Fords are fine people. Henry Ford is great because he dreams and has ideals and puts them into practice. It was a wonderful experience to talk with him." Each spoke after a conference in Detroit after which Edsel Ford said he would help financially to back a Byrd flight over the South Pole as he helped back him to the North Pole. The South Pole trip...
Perhaps Colonel Green does have strange whims?most wealthy men with scientific inclinations are considered "queer" by their neIghbors. But, more likely, Colonel Green's newest whim will make him a patron of U. S. aviation as famed as Rodman Wanamaker, Raymond Orteig, Daniel Guggenheim, Henry & Edsel Ford...