Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after two decades of flying army Jennies, daredevilish barnstorming, and pushing swift racers to more than 200 flying records coast-to-coast and here-to-there in the U. S. and Europe, Frank Hawks had learned a thing or two about landings. He had cracked many a ship in those 20 years. One in 1921 had cost him $200, one last year, $100,000. Such mishaps he took with a grin. "If you can walk away from it," he used to say, "it's a good landing." Once or twice Frank Hawks was unable to walk away-one crash...
Ever since 1929 Frank Hawks had been aviation's best pal and severest critic. Then he was flying for Texaco, and every push he gave aviation meant bigger gas and oil sales. Flying coast-to-coast and point-to-point faster than men had traveled such distances before, he used to crow: "That's the way the airlines could fly this route if they'd take that outside plumbing off their ships." Recent years have seen most of Frank Hawks's speed records fall to Howard Hughes, but they have also seen the "outside plumbing" disappear...
...Callander, Ont. last week Mr. & Mrs. Oliva Dionne and all their twelve children, including the quintuplets, received the blessing of Pope Pius XI, brought from Vatican City by onetime President Frank Blied of the Catholic Central Verein. Said Mr. Blied: "By the grace of God, this is a blessing to the entire community. This is a different theory than birth control. This is the emancipation of humanity...
...Coquille, Ore., Walter Smith was in court on his 43rd charge of drunkenness. Judge Frank Leslie gave him the choice of pouring 20 quarts of confiscated whiskey down the sink or going to jail for 30 days. Indignant, Walter Smith went to jail...
...Pearson's own life is the period he spent as an officer in Persia during the War; he outstared and outran the natives, boasts of making tough army men eat out of his hand. Of main interest to the reader are his anecdotes of George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton, Frank Harris, Hilaire Belloc, Conan Doyle. The best of them-a sizzling dialogue, between Shaw and Chesterton, Frank Harris' belligerent interview with Galsworthy-are secondhand. Also among the secondhand are such random anecdotes as one concerning a friend of a friend who once found himself in the company...