Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countless generations of fox hunting folk have established a crystalized vernacular. "A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H." (Master of Fox Hounds) is social head of the hunt, and disciplinary leader of "the field"; other riders are "fox hunters" or "riders-to-hounds"; "hunter," used singly, refers to a jumping horse used for following hounds...
...reporters at Valbuena Field, Mexico City, knew that a colossal story was coming their way-in fact, well nigh into their laps. They could see it clearly in the air, for there was the Travel-Air cabin monoplane City of Wichita, in which could only be Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his fiancee, Anne Spencer Morrow. It was apparent, from the gestures of the figure at the cabin window and from the naked axle on the right-hand side of the landing gear, that the Colonel had lost a wheel. It was a story with a hundred possible endings...
Somersault. Col. Lindbergh circled above the field several times, making preparations. Exactly what went on in the cabin is not known. But the windows were put down to avoid flying glass, and Col. Lindbergh undoubtedly packed cushions around Miss Morrow. According to one plausible report, he said to her: "When we land, we'll overturn. Don't be afraid...
Cotter Pin. The cause of the accident was narrowed down to a cotter pin, which one of the mechanics at Valbuena Field had forgotten to replace after greasing the landing wheels that morning. The wheel, Col. Lindbergh said, fell off after a stop for luncheon...
Three Inches. A few days later, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who is tabloided as "Lady Lindy," did a somersault in the mud at Curtiss Field, Long Island, while attempting to land her plane. This received space averaging three inches in the same newspaper which had made the Lindbergh-Morrow flop story...