Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Night Flyer. Speedy, thrilling is this picture of how the mail train raced to Medicine Bend. Director James Cruze routed from the round house the engines of pioneer railroad days as a setting for a story as primitive as that of Casey Jones...
...Wrecker. What a to-do in the offices of the Great Trunk Line! A criminal, a nameless fiend, is, everyone feels almost certain, going to continue his series of express train demolishments by wrecking the night flyer. To the great dismay of the little group waiting around for something to happen, he does just this; then the president of the road, on the point of naming the dastard's name, is shot down by some mysterious hand...
...small plane taxied right up to the fence of the home at Bundaberg, Australia, last week. Flyer Harold (Bert) Hinkler stepped stiffly out and kissed his mother waiting there. That was the goal of his record-breaking solo flight from Croyden, England, to the Antipodes...
Clarence Duncan Chamberlain, New York-to-Berlin flyer, started on a lecture tour of the southern states in a Sperry-Messenger plane last week. He did the first lap through a snowstorm, and will do 5,000 miles in five weeks. His plane has a 26-foot wingspread...
...lack of a nail an army was lost and for want of a pin, a CRIMSON candidate very nearly lost the desired opportunity of a few words with Commander Richard E. Byrd, famous explorer and trans oceanic flyer, who was in Symphony Hall officiating at a recent international festival of music...