Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heroes at the luncheon included Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, first non-stop trans Atlantic aviator, who flew with the late Sir John Alcock from Newfoundland to Ireland eight years before Lindbergh; slightly grizzled Louis Bleriot, first to fly the English Channel, now a millionaire French planemaker; Squadron Leader Augustus H. Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor...
...called Lindbergh "swelled-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky" (TIME, June...
...Roscoe Turner. Average flying time was 179 m.p.h., sometimes as high as 240. Pilot Hawks complained of headwinds over most of the course, varying between 20 and 30 m.p.h. He prepared to attack the west-east record of 14 hr. 45 min. set last Easter by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh with Mrs. Lindbergh...
...dare assert," continued Editor Pew, that his [Lindbergh's] name and picture have been published in the press of the United States more times than that of any other individual in a similar period. I suppose his press linage throughout the universe is unequalled. Yet . . . everyone who has studied his nature has remarked his innate verecundity in personal relations...
...Lindbergh and wife denied pictures of their baby to New York American. Journal ("Hearst); News, Mirror. Graphic (Tabloids): described practices of such papers as "disgusting . . . contemptible ... a social drag . . . non-constructive ... a waste of time...