Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene was solemn, though not splendid. On a high platform in Convention Hall, Kansas City, sat 40 bishops. Above them could be seen the U. S. flag, draped with elaborate tassels; also the Christian flag, an emblem composed of a red cross on a blue square in a white field. The organ console and the pulpit were in view, as was the communion table covered with a shining linen cloth. The spectators, of whom there were thousands sitting in the balconies, looked up at windows which were illumined by hidden lights. An electric cross was hung in a high arch...
Young, pretty, impulsive, utterly reckless, Thea Rasche, Germany's crack lady stunt-flier, arrived here last week and repaired at once to Curtiss Field, there to inspect a Stinson Detroiter monoplane in which she plans to fly to Germany...
Courtly but honest, as the traditional Irishman, Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice of transatlantic fame ventured the opinion last week that women are temperamentally unsuited for flying. Hastening to point out that there are exceptions to every rule, he remarked that "when she brings a ship into a field, a woman pilot seems to be possessed with the idea that she is about to come down on the Sahara Desert...
...varying loads; variable camber in the wings, so that they could flatten out like a gull's when flying level; a varying angle of incidence to its wings, so that they could turn sideways into the wind on landing, and let him drop onto a landing field "no bigger than a handkerchief...
Last week, at Curtiss Field, Long Island, Bonney tested his finally completed Gull. It flew. For half a mile it traveled in a burst of speed. Bonney waved his arm in triumph. And then the Gull nosed down to earth and dived straight into the ground, a mass of wreckage. Bonney landed on his head 20 feet away, with only moments left to live...