Word: flier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want to go back to Paris by plane, because Lindbergh has already done that. His flight was so chic-it would be useless repetition to follow him. After we get back to France, perhaps we shall plan the East-to-West North Atlantic flight. Qui sait...
...Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, the flier's mother, declared that his latest undertaking was a matter that concerned him alone. . . . She then returned to her class (she teaches chemistry in the Cass Technical High School...
Another speaker on the same program was Clarence Duncan Chamberlin, transatlantic flier, who said: "When I returned to this country I was informed on behalf of the Secretary of the Navy that, unfortunately, my flight could not be officially recognized. That was all right with me, but a few days later I was told I must pay duty on the trophies given me by other countries. I know, however, that no matter what the officials do, the people of the United States are 100% back of me, just as they are back of Admiral Magruder...
What sent Dr. Patrick hurrying out of his house, into his flivver and into the night, was a telegram asking him to meet a train at the railroad station. Not many trains stop at Marceline, Mo., least of all the ponderous flier that groaned to a halt this night, dropping off brakemen with lanterns and a worried conductor...
...Crimson quartet. For three-quarters of the mile distance the Harvard runners held their own with the southerners, but on the last lap, while running a nip-and-tuck race and making a strong bid for victory, O'Neil, the Crimson anchor man, tripped and fell. The fourth Maryland flier aped on to an easy...