Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before incredulous experts, Capt. Geoffrey De Havilland took his Moth up over London, stalled his engine at a height of 200 feet, and deliberately crashed to the ground of Staglane Airdrome. The little plane crashed, crumbled; the experts gasped. But from the mess stepped Capt. De Havilland, smiling and nodding his head as if to say: "So you see, gentlemen, these Handley-Page automatic slots of which I have been telling you really do make an airplane fool-proof." The slots, attached to the wing tips, automatically open in case of accident, not unlike a parachute, and let an unhappy...
...Fogg Museum, as the result of the generosity of Mr. White, has just published facsimiles of a selected number of the illustrations. Geoffrey Keynes, the distinguished Blake scholar, has contributed a critical introduction to the plates. The exhibition will close on January...
...text with a foreword by Professor C. N. Greenough '98, and an essay by Geoffrey Keynes M.A., of London, who has made a careful study of the whole series of illustrations, is being printed at the University Press and will be included in the portfolio. This publication of Blake's water colors is the first to include reproductions in color, and the only one ever made by photographic reproduction from the originals. An attempt to produce engraved copies of 150 of the drawings in 1794 fell short of its goal, so that only 43 were made at that time...
...Glen Head, L. I., where he lives, Colonel Isham has ordered a fireproof room to be built where the relics may be kept. There he will prepare them for publication, probably with the help of Professor Chauncy Brewster Tinker, Yale authority on Boswell; perhaps also with the help of Geoffrey Scott, biographer of "Zelide" and translator of her stories. After publication the papers will be occasionally open to view, that scholars who wish to scrutinize the actual writing of a vain, foolish, careful, idolatrous and preposterous genius...
...cocktails, cryptograms. She would never come through safely but for Colonel Dessiter, who does not die after all. Through a special secret Government bureau, X. Y. O., they foil Moscow, save the nation, preserve the world. On the last page, Miss Brown learns that Colonel Dessiter's name is Geoffrey. "Then, for the first time, Miss Brown was kissed upon the lips...