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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Lindbergh win the $25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman, for the first New York-Paris non-stop flight, but he established for himself the immemorial right of extracting dollars from the hero-gaping U. S. public by appearing on the vaudeville stage, in the cinema, etc. A money-minded New York Herald Tribune writer figured out that Captain Lindbergh, as a professional hero, could (if he chose) earn $1,000,000 in one year in the following manner...
Percival Christopher Wren (British author of Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur, etc.) was co-respondent in a divorce suit won by Cyril Graham Smith, civil engineer stationed at Poona, India, from Mrs. Smith, in London...
Most skilled women golfers have found that skirts do not interfere with their game. But many a female duffer has taken to knickerbockers ("knickers") in hopes that they will improve her game, give her freedom of swing, etc. Men have snickered at women in knickerbockers, have said that they looked ridiculous waddling around the links...
Died. Henry Edwards Huntington, 77, California railroader and art collector; in Philadelphia, after an operation. He bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," a Gutenberg Bible, the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, etc.; owned the most valuable collection of first editions in the world...
...book* by romantic, poetic, enthusiastic, sparkling, dauntless, bubbling, impetuous, adventurous, dramatic, enthralling, etc. Playboy Richard Halliburton begins with a "Crash! The lightning in a rage split the writhing firmament from Thessaly to the Cyclades in one blazing, blinding glare. Streaks of fire burst into the inky darkness, inflaming the abyss about me and lashing at the clouds that hurtled past...