Word: heaths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room of Widener Library includes an interesting collection of books and pamphlets illustrated in color by Rowlandson, Leech, Heath, Cruikshank, and others...
...erroneously reported last fortnight that Lady Sophie Heath, 30, had arrived in London by train (TIME, May 21). Actually, she did not reach London until last week-and she came alone in her own airplane, completing her solo flight from Cape Town, South Africa, after she had been long delayed by British officials at Cairo, Egypt...
...matter whether Lady Sophie Heath arrived in London by plane, train or horsecar, because her rival, Lady Mary Bailey, 38, had won the race a week before by completing her flight from London to Cape Town...
...husbands of the two flying Ladies also figured in the news. Said Sir Abe Bailey, 63, owner of diamond mines, at a luncheon in honor of his wife in Cape Town: "I knew she was a brave woman when she married me." Sir James Heath, 76, coal & iron tycoon, amazed mechanics by giving his wife a vigorous & noisy kiss when she landed at Croydon Airdrome in London. Said he: "A braver woman never lived...
Four weeks ago (TIME, April 23) there was a pause in the criss-cross race which Lady Sophie Heath (Sir James' wife) was having with Lady Mary Bailey (Sir Abe's wife). Lady Sophie was down in Cairo, fuming at British officials because they had cautiously padlocked her plane and refused to let her fly on to London. Lady Mary was lounging nervously in Tabora, a Central African native village, recovering from injuries and waiting for her wealthy baronet to send her a "Moth" to replace the one whose motor had stalled and which had catapulted her into...