Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Club at Paris last week entertained a twitterer-Lieut-Col. Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla. Many present had known him in the U. S. He had been a co-worker with the late Ferdinand de Lesseps on the first attempt to dig a Panama canal. That project (by the French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump...
...Lieut. Joseph C. Soper, 25, U. S. Army pursuit pilot, was killed before the eyes of 15,000 when his Curtiss plane dived into Lake Erie during an exhibition at Camp Perry, Ohio...
...Engaged. Lieut. Commander John S. G. L. Dundas of H. M. S. Vindictive, son of the late Hon. Cospatrick Thomas Dundas and of Lady Cordeaux; to Miss Ruth Northrop Coleman, daughter of the Postmaster of Minneapolis...
Last week, the best public linksters met on the Cobbs Creek course, Philadelphia. Police Lieut. Samuel Graham, muscular Pittsburgher, won the qualifying medal and was put out in the second round by a left-handed carpenter from Washington. But Carl F. Kauffmann, 32, dour-faced clerk, also of Pittsburgh, retained the championship which he won last year by defeating Philip Ogden of Cleveland in the finals...
From Paris to Manhattan by air is a feat that has stimulated and perturbed Frenchmen since the days of lost Heroes Nungesser and Coli. Last week Lieut. Paulin Paris, Mechanician Marat, Radioman Cadou set out to accomplish it in a hydroplane. They reached the island of Fayal in the Azores safely. Then they refuelled, prepared to hop to Bermuda, to Manhattan...