Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ambulance went out to get Chamberlain. The next race was called-event for two, three, and four-passeger planes flown by civilians. Pilot C. S. ("Casey") Jones, hawk-faced, vigilant, won it in a Curtiss Oriole...
...blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children; a band of bearded woodcutters hupging a fire that flames scarlet among Alpine snows. The genius of the family, Theodore F. Powys, appears in the journal, now plunged in abysmal moroseness, now making "his sardonic, dry quips, his double-tongued chirpings, jumping this...
Feature films made here have been remarkably successful abroad. The cost of the Covered Wagon-about $800,000- has just about been covered by foreign sales; altogether it has grossed $5,000,000. Similar success has attended the Sea Hawk, which cost $700,000, and will gross about $3,000,000, and the Lost World, which also cost about $700,000. The Ten Commandments cost $1,800,000 to make-more than double the cost of any previous film. Despite early predictions of a staggering loss on this picture, it is now believed that foreign sales alone will more than...
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Wilbur and Orville Wright made their first flights at Kitty Hawk, N. C., on Dec. 17, 1903. For more than 20 years, the machine they used has been faithfully guarded, kept intact. Last week, Orville, the surviving brother,* announced that he was presenting this relic of man's first flight to the Science Museum at South Kensington, London, where a large collection of historic planes and engines already exists. Mr. Wright naturally seeks greater safety against damage and fire than his own home affords. But why a foreign museum ? Why not the Smithsonian Institution in Washington...