Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Though Nassan refuse them sanctuary the Bebe Daniels and the Dolores Costellos need not go weeping through the night. The cathedrals of the movies will continue to distribute collegiate caviar to the general. The departure of the campus first will go unmourned, like the simultaneous flight of a campus sense of humor...
...months ago I came from Honolulu; lost track of news for a month; got back numbers of TIME; found out all I wanted to know. Especially interesting to me was your write-up of the Dole Flight, but you made two mistakes: that Mrs. Jensen was a small woman, and you misquoted her-as did all other papers-upon the arrival of her second-prize-winning husband. Everyone, especially Mrs. Jensen, was expecting Martin Jensen in first, as last reports had indicated that he was leading. Even after Art Goebel's plane had been sighted in the distance...
...doors to shut. Without delay, the car drifted upward at the rate of 800 feet per minute. At each floor for which a button had been pressed, the car automatically stopped, the doors automatically opened. At a touch of the lever the doors closed themselves, the elevator continued its flight. At the 16th floor, dizzy with surprise & pleasure, the old gentleman got out. . . . When he wished to come down again, the first car traveling downward stopped inevitably at his imperious pressure of the downward signal. The old gentleman noted that the floor of the elevator always corresponded precisely with...
...keep Captain Giles from the damp quill and the two-a-day. But there will always remain a few skeptics who, keeping in mind that he admitted jettisoning 300 gallons of fuel, will class him with Cosy Dolan as the first to throw a World Series or a transoceanic flight...