Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while writing his music in his penthouse on Manhattan's Park Avenue by an arrangement which permits him to play a piano and an organ at the same time. More like ponderous Rudolf Friml than graceful Jerome Kern, ''Rommy" Romberg is probably the best-known second-flight popular composer in the world...
...about to go off gold was to risk being deported under Premier Pierre Laval's new and drastic decrees for defense of the franc. Into Paris mailboxes vexed correspondents popped dire franc predictions. These, unopened, safely reached London, Brussels, Amsterdam. Everyone knew anyhow that gold was again in flight from France in the nearest thing to panic since last spring. Three successive uppings by the Bank of France of its discount rate failed to halt the flow. Instead it quickened. The radical parties opposing M. Laval redoubled what they call their politique du pire-tactics "to make everything worse...
...spite of this record, Capt. Musick has remained virtually unknown to the public. He refuses to show off or make wisecracks for newsmen. He has never been known to stunt in a plane, never makes a flight without the most meticulous preparations, even refuses to tie up to a mark until it has been tested. Completely lacking in vanity, he refuses to discuss his career even with such close friends as Navigator Noonan, with whom he bunks when on duty...
...good terms with his men, Capt. Musick says little in the air, other than the necessary commands, prefers to sit in silent attention to his work. Typical was an incident on the first Hawaii flight to test the vast preparations for fulfilling Lindbergh's Pacific dream. At the wheel, Pilot Sullivan grinned: "Old stuff this. We've flown this route so many times in training I've recognized every cloud we've seen since leaving San Francisco...
...exhausted. None of Napoleon's spies returned. Counting on peasants to supply information and food, he found the country deserted. Believing that a battle would lead Alexander to sue for peace, he feverishly pursued an army that spread so widely he could scarcely determine the direction of its flight. "I beat the Russians every time," he exclaimed, "but that doesn't get me anywhere...