Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belgian Ambassador Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, to present a bronze statute of Col. Lindbergh by a Mlle. Wilde of Belgium...
...Chinese gentleman, also an aviator, sponsored the rumor. Skeptics pointed out that such a spectacular bid for Chinese good will was among the more remote problems of immediate statecraft. Hard-headed U. S. men, soft-hearted U. S. women grumblingly asked when the dangerous far-flung flights of Col. Lindbergh would cease...
...intrepid American flyer brought his Spirit of St. Louis down on Valbuena Field at 2.39. . . . He had covered more than 2,000 miles in 27 hours, 15 minutes . . . from the crowd delirious shouts of joy . . . motorcycle police rushed toward the spot . . . Lindbergh was lifted upon the shoulders of his new Mexican admirers and placed into an automobile which began a slow trip to the Presidential stand. . . . The American hero seemed tired when he marched up to the President, but he was smiling happily. Speaking through an interpreter, President Calles assured him of Mexico's delight. . . . The greeting not entirely...
...Financial gain formulates the policy of the men who control the metropolitan papers," cried he. "The Times boasted that exploitation of Lindbergh had increased its circulation, and the World that its circulation had been increased by printing details about Dempsey and Tunney. These were proper subjects...
...SPIRIT OF ST. Louis-Edited by Charles Vale-Doran ($2). After Charles Augustus Lindbergh's airplane had carried him safely to Paris, there occurred an immediate and overwhelming outburst of bad poetry. Even the more hardened practitioners of this difficult art found their emotions titillated; more than 3,000 of them sent verses to a prize contest conducted so as to determine who had written the best poem about Lindbergh. The three prizewinning poems, and the 97 next best now appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded...