Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, and Lady Maud returned to London, last week, from a 12,000-mile round trip flight inaugurating the London-Cairo-Delhi air service (TIME, Jan. 10). The King-Emperor was graciously pleased to create Lady Maud a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She is the first woman ever to fly so many miles. There had been snow, rain, fog, sandstorms, but not a spare part was needed for the ship...
...Nationalist (Cantonese) advance upon Shanghai (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) brought them a great victory early in the week when they captured and looted Hangchow, 113 miles from Shanghai, and put to flight the troops of War Lord Sun Chuan-fang, defender of Shanghai...
...lady's second offering fully merits the company of her first. Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will explore other ponds before circling back to an inviting one nearby...
...complete the program: H. Emerson Whithorne's "Aeroplane," a tonal attempt at flight which taxied furiously without quite getting off the ground; III. Frederich Shepherd Converse's "Elegia Poem," from the melody of an old Negro slave song; finally two foreign compositions as a sop: the Mozart G Minor and Stravinsky's Fire Bird...
...Tray had his day. Not to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd for his spectacular flight to the North Pole and back last spring at Spitzbergen but to U. S. Mail Pilot Shirley J. Short, for having flown 2,000 hours with valuable cargo in all kinds of weather and with never a serious accident or lapse in schedule, did the International League of Aviators last week award the Harmon Trophy for the best performance in 1926 by a U. S. flyer. To Pilot Georges Pelleder D'Oisy for his long distance flights (France to Africa, Paris to Tokyo) went...