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...Brunswick, N. J., and headed for Bellefonte, Pa. The noise of his plane faded to a faint jarring, then less, then nothing. That was the last that anybody heard of Pilot Ames. He never reached Bellefonte. As far as appearances went, he might have tilted off into interstellar space. A towerman on the Pennsylvania said that he had seen a plane come out of a fog bank with all its lights lit, waver for a moment, vanish again. Farmers declared that they had heard the noise of a motor above them early on the morning that Ames disappeared. Searching parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Death of Ames | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Armillary Sphere is a great sundial cast in the design of that ancient astrological instrument, the armillary. Man and woman repose at its base; the goat, the lion, the bear, the ram, pursue each other in its wheels, while the armillary seems to spin, with slow laughter, through interstellar space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Manship | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...tobacco. That prehensile-nosed organization, the W. C. T. U. will meddle in other people's business once too often; and the heckled, down-trodden proletariat will, with starting abruptness, proceed to clean house. The disembodied a spirit of the W. C. T. U. floating around in interstellar space, where there is no tobacco smoke, will have time to reflect on the fact that the American people are like a buzz-saw. One cannot "monkey" with them much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEDDLING W. C. T. U. | 10/14/1919 | See Source »

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