Word: jans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brownsville to Panama. His face a triangular scowl of fatigue and vexation, Captain Ira Eaker, who flew the famed Question Mark seven days without landing (TIME, Jan. 14), last week tried a dawn-to-dusk flight over the 1,950 miles between Brownsville, Tex., and Panama. Fog over Mexico and Guatemala and headwinds a great part of the way obliged him to descend at Managua, Nicaragua, 550 miles from goal...
...first day of his illness Marshal Foch demanded and received from all his doctors the minutest account of what was to be fought and how. Unlike His Majesty George V, who did not bring himself to chew and swallow solid food while his royal appetite was in abeyance (TIME, Jan. 14), the Generalissimo continued, even last week to eat with a precision which his doctors declared absolutely astounding in a patient thus far gone...
...issue of TIME of Jan. 28, there is this with reference to the ratification by the U.S. Senate of the Kellogg Treaty...
...Emma of Holland, 70 years old, the proud, aristocratic parent of plump, reigning Queen Wilhelmina. She stood alone in a room of the Royal Academy in London and looked at 51 browntoned Rembrandts, part of the magnificent loan exhibition of Dutch art which has delighted London since January (TIME, Jan. 21)?sequel to the Flemish exhibition of the year before. Attendants kept a curious crowd outside locked doors. When Queen Emma heard of this she at once commanded, "Let the people in! They must not be deprived of these things...
...Last recorded (TIME, Jan. 28), Rockefeller weights were: Senior, 135 Ibs., Junior, 170 Ibs. † Including the Misses Radclyffe (The Well of Loneliness) Hall and Norah C. (The Sleeveless Errand) James, two British spinsters whose books have been recently suppressed...