Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbia lay fueled and ready to start, touching ground again 33 hours and 29 minutes later in mad Paris. Chamberlin had to be content to finish second in the race across the Atlantic. Half in admiration, he reports Mr. Levine in love with flying. Halfway across the Atlantic Enthusiast Levine forced the Columbia into a 17,000-foot drop from which she was extracted with difficulty. Over Germany, Levine ordered the plane flown until the last drop of gas was gone, forcing an accident when a landing had to be made on rough ground. After each accident, said Mr. Levine...
...belief have their limitations and even the imagination talks when asked to solve the enigmatical causa causans of the enforcement of compulsory golf at Annapolis. It is not unassuming to picture natty mid-shipment pursuing the elusive golf pellet over the briny billows of the deep. No ardent enthusiast of the green has falled, at some moment or other, to meditate upon the possibility of a rolling sea suddenly solidified, but the very idea of battleships being equipped with golf courses, midshipmen adding knickerbockers to their accouterment, and the employment of Marines as caddies would have been considered an hallucination...
...readings from the H.A.A. News, prefating his performance with a request that several of the northern portals be barricaded as there seemed to be a strong draught; that done, he pleaded for silence. The entertainment was never consummated, however, for the game resumed shortly. The Fine Arts enthusiast offered comments: "A delicate organization, that team, highly sensitive, nervous, and yet possessing a certain Renaissance delicacy which is quite charming, quite ..." He rumbled on, and not unit the final whistie did he conclude...
...have played through a whole year together, or when aided by the comparatively strange but acknowledgedly brilliant Captain Roark. Their decision will in measure hang upon the opinion and advice of H. H. the Maharajah of Rutlam, himself a keen, able player, who travels with the officers as companion, enthusiast, patron. Most prominently mentioned among those who may be selected by the U. S. Polo Association to represent the U. S. next September are Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Devereux Milburn, Louis E. Stoddard, J. Watson Webb, Malcolm Stevenson, J. Cheever Cowdin, Earle W. Hopping and Robert E. Strawbridge...
...pockets better than any motor-propelled aviator.. Landing is difficult; but not dangerous, because the glider is neither heavy nor swift. Recently a skilled German pilot, Herr Espenlaub, landed his glider after being set loose from an airplane at a height of 5,000 feet. Many a gliding enthusiast skims the hills of Germany and France. In the U. S. they are rare...