Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the visitors at the field on the third day was a distinguished old gentleman so bundled up in his greatcoat that few bystanders recognized him at first. He got out of his automobile and hurried over to watch the Lobbyist take off with a fresh load. Smiling like a boy, stepping quickly with excitement, the old gentleman looked as though he wanted to fly too. But he was not asked and it was not until he took off his hat to shake off mud and gravel whirled up by the Lobbyist's propellers, that newsgatherers spotted...
Charles A. Levine has learned to fly. The man who plunged the Columbia into a 17,000 foot nosedive at the most critical time in her transatlantic trip, then flew alone and unaided from Paris to London, demonstrated his ability last week at Curtiss Field in quest of a pilot's license. He landed at a mark with and without power, did figure eights and other evolutions. Dean Percy T. Walden, in charge of freshmen at Yale, appealed to the Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested...
Latterly great bond houses have trained up a generation of college bond saleswomen, who are always called "salesmen," who are always shouted at by the boss across a field of desks by their last names, and who smoke up the sales rooms. Seventeen ladies are actually partners in Stock Exchange houses. Three of them have applied to the Exchange authorities for admission to membership. "Too much jostling on the floor," the 15 gentlemen of the Committee on Admissions have always sternly replied. "No worse than subways or night-clubs," is the reply of the eager ladies...
...sells a phonograph with a R. C. A. Radiola contained.† It also has the right to use R. C. A.'s research, as well as General Electric's, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing's, American Telephone & Telegraph's and Western Electric's discoveries in the field of acoustics & sound reproductions...
...gallery always follows Gene Sarazen. The one that got round the first tee at Miami last week as he drove off for the final round of the La Gorce Open, with $15,000 up in prizes, was bigger than usual. Sarazen was leading the field. People who weren't following him dropped back to watch Cruickshank, a stroke behind. Johnny Farrell started late. Few spectators bothered...