Word: lebrix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been ousted from the Prime Ministry since the last election and was thought last week to be in danger of losing his seat as a Deputy. In the nick of time there arrived to bolster up his candidacy the two least likely persons imaginable: Dieudonné Costes and Joseph Lebrix, famed 'round-the-world aviators (TIME, April...
While all Paris hoarsed a welcome, Costes and Lebrix flew in from Marseilles on the last lap of their journey. Heroes, they revealed a fact which seemed scandalous. They declared that the French government had hindered their flight in several instances by intimating through French consuls that they ought not to continue their hazardous program. The only effective aid vouchsafed to them by the State came, they said, indirectly through War Minister Paul Painleve...
...taken Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix a little more than six days to complete the Tokyo to Paris (10,370 mi.) lap of the round-the-world flight which they started in October, with a hop across the South Atlantic. They had dallied in the U. S. and crossed the Pacific, which no man has ever spanned by air, in a boat. Their last spurt broke all speed records for the journey...
...turned out in full force. Government officials cried and kissed the aviators; the older ones had never expected to see them again. People in Paris stood outside their shops talking, laughing . . . you couldn't walk along the Champs Elysees. The Government decreed a special stamp for Costes and Lebrix...
Costes and Lebrix allowed a barber to remove the short stubble which appeared upon their faces since tonsuring in Tokyo; they learned that the ambassadors of 22 American republics were arranging an international reception for them; they said they would take a short rest and then fly across the Atlantic to New York...