Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into a little black bag. They started to flee through the now deserted mezzanine. "Texas," however, stopped to call on the house detective. The detective stuck a revolver out of his office door and fired, hitting the Cherokee in the shoulder. Then Texas joined the others in flight. His falling blood incarnadined the marble steps as he ran down. The other cowboy lost his way, ran into the kitchen and, after a little miscellaneous gunplay, was knocked on the head...
Meantime, anti-foreign feeling continued to run high in most of the eastern Provinces. Strikers remained out and a bloody clash took place between two Chinese factions at Canton. In the same place terrorists frightened the sexton of the foreign cemetery to flight by threatening to dig up the dead. In divers places stories of shots fired at foreign transports were reported and lost nothing in being recounted. Despite many difficulties, indications were that Chinese unrest was slowly ebbing...
...companions, Lieutenant Dietrichsen and Mechanic Omdahl, out of polar pools into which they slipped while walking over floes from their crippled seaplane to rejoin Explorer Amundsen, the Cabinet Council of Norway last week conferred a gold medal on Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth, only U.S. member of the Amundsen polar flight which returned in safety a fortnight ago to Oslo (TIME, July...
...Ellsworth said: "No." Asked if they were interested in the project of Herr Hugo Eckener of trying for the Pole in a super-zeppelin, said they: "Yes, in-deed!" Said Ellsworth, whose recent trip was his first polar experience: "I have only just begun . . . Any project for a polar flight by dirigible should plan its route for a flight clear across the Pole, terminating in Japan...
Eckener was known to be seeking their company for a flight next year; was reported to have arranged for a conference this month somewhere in North Germany...