Word: isnardon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because M. Isnardon, ex-champion pugilist, amateur painter, sometime of the Ritz in London, is also a champion cook, whose fame has spread all over Provence, his inn is the stopping place for most of the pilots who are training for record-breaking flights, and his walls are a gallery of photographs of the first flyers of France. Here have stayed Rossi, Codos, Bossoutrot, Doret, Mermoz, Le Brix, the late lamented Boucher, all the bright company of those whose deeds have kept France in the van of aviation; and here, too, Delmotte, chunky, red-faced, and carefree, together with...
...days, perhaps before this letter reaches you, Rossi and Codos will take off for a nonstop flight to Rio, in their five-year-old plane, with an engine which has already flown 1,000 hours, and if they too succeed, then there will be great rejoicing chez Isnardon, and the wings of France will once more be lifted toward the stars...
...Chez Isnardon there was rejoicing, but only because Rossi and Codos landed safely in the Cape Verde Islands when their plane's oil system failed...
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