Word: flew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover walked in and out of the living room, gnawing cigars. A bat flew in at the window. Guests and butlers chased it upstairs...
Then, with the budget about to be voted down, came, as in Polish fairy tales, the surprise. A door behind the Tribune of the Sejm flew open. Once more the frayed field uniform, the old sword, the drooping ferocious mustachios: PILSUDSKI...
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...
They rejected Southern Cross and sought a more expressive name for the thing which lay at rest on Naselai Beach. It was a boat, for it had come across the water to Fiji, bearing men. But they had never seen a boat which flew in the air like a bird. The inspiration came suddenly. "Waqavuka" (bird-boat) they cried, and their brown hands fluttered about the plane and the four men who stood beside...
...Southern Cross flew across 7,300 miles of water, 500 miles of land in ten days, in 89 flying hours. Modest Kingsford-Smith landing at Sydney behind schedule (one day), apologized. Rewards came quickly: $25,000 from proud grateful "Aussie"; the Southern Cross, the gift of its owner G. Allen Hancock, Los Angeles financier...