Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pinedo. Commander Francesco de Pinedo, famed flying Fascist, was forced last week to land on the Atlantic near the Azores Islands on the next-to-last leg of his 26,000-mile, four-continent flight. Premier Mussolini stayed up all night until he heard that Flyer de Pinedo's plane had been towed safely to Fayal, Azores. Soon Commander de Pinedo expects to hop to Rome and receive a long-delayed welcome...
...adulterated by that morbid interest which the public loves to take in its heroes. The old policy of sentimental advertising is followed: a popular song has appeared in his honor, and Parisian cafes have doubtless added a dash to absinthe to some drink and christened the concoction after the flyer...
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, revealed that Flyer Charles Lindbergh had asked him for letters of introduction to friends in Paris who might "show him around a little." Colonel Roosevelt complied. To Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick he wrote: "This will introduce to you . . . a real sportsman . . . Captain Lindbergh is modest. He won't ask you to do anything for him. If I were you, however, I would insist upon seeing something...
Yesterday, negotiations with Willie Goodwin, noted Y. M. C. A. flyer, proved unsuccessful, adding another name to the list of those invited who have sent their regrets...
...producing $35,000 per annum, has fame, a mansion, a pretty wife and a son. But the wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine. Convalescing in obscurity, with a beard and scar, after the wreck of a French flyer, he decides not to correct the report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life "from zero." The Matthew Knowle novel provides funds and Author Owen provides our hero with...