Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty Queen Salote of Tonga or the Friendly Islands, a British protectorate, was informed, last week, that Falcon Island had again appeared, some 40 miles to the west of her realm, and seemed to be somewhat larger this time than when it last sank...
Meanwhile the British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Eyre Hutson, was taking steps to claim Falcon Island again in the name of His Britannic Majesty. As everyone knows, an island or continent becomes "new land" whenever it sinks and rises again, thus necessitating its "rediscovery" and much other pompous, legal procedure...
Over Long Island, last week, Lieut. Maxwell W. Balfour and Lieut. John H. McCormack were testing a Curtiss falcon preparatory to accepting it for the Army. They put it into a roll at 3,000 feet. The wings crumpled and the fuselage "flew right out of the wings" they said. Calmly they turned off the ignition (to prevent fire in the crash) and jumped out with parachutes. The fuselage came to earth in the stables of the Meadow Brook Club, killing two polo ponies: Gay Boy, used in the International Cup Play last autumn by Malcolm Stevenson, and Anaconda, also...
Dean had the following lineup: Hillary, s.s.; Dumas, c.; Connors, p.; McNamara, r.f.; Klarman, l.f.; Tobin, c.f.; McCabe, 3b.; Falcon, 1b.; Byrne...
McKinlock Hall captured the dormitory basketball crown in the play off yesterday afternoon, nosing out the Standish team 29 to 28 in a closely contested match. The Falcon Club defeated Sigma Alpha Apsilon last night 34 to 30, clinching the championship of the Alpha league, and will play the Alpha Sigma Phi, winner in the Beta league, at 8 o'clock tonight in Hemenway in the first of the games for the inter fraternity championship...