Word: feats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they should not enjoy the amenities of seagoing passengers of today in the way of promenades, dancing, games and music. To fly from Paris or London to New York will be commonplace." Now this speaker was Louis Blériot, who, in July, 1909, performed the then unheard-of feat of flying across the English Channel. The Blériot monoplane of 1909 was something of a portent and Louis Blériot has been building aircraft ever since. Never till last week had he repeated his flight of 1909, either as pilot or passenger, "because until two years...
...sadist who takes pleasure, ipso facto, in inflicting pain. * Last week John Allen Sickel, Manhattan caviar dealer, bet his wife that he could name all the state capitals in the U. S. He won. Curious newspapermen wondered how many other citizens could duplicate Mr. Sickel's feat. TIME readers desirous this week of making bets similar to Mr. Sickel's may settle their bets by consulting p. 9, where all state capitals are listed...
...Whitten Brown safely on "the other side" in 16 hours, 12 minutes. The late Lord Northcliffe enriched those two flyers with some $50,000 in prize money and prophesied that soon London newspapers would be sold the day of issue in Manhattan. But no man has since attempted the feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond Orteig, has been offering $25,000 to see it duplicated. Lately, in and about Manhattan, there has moved a stalwart, not-very-tall young man with the gait...
...told, the book is rather a mediocre feat for the celebrated scorner of average men, literary grace, Pulitzer Prizes. The flaying of E. Wesson Woodbury may spoil a great many people's summer vacations, but far more malice could have been wrought, and more sales made, if the ending had not been so tediously dragged out. After paddling far up the stream of U. S. literature, Mr. Lewis has idly turned his canoe and shot some unexciting rapids...
Butte despatches report that he "can take a perfect F above high C, which feat is adjudged remarkable...