Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Charles Augustus Lindbergh put final commas in his book, We, mechanics put final nut-twists and spurts of oil on The Spirit of St. Louis. Government mechanics at the same time got ready a U. S. Department of Commerce monoplane and all was prepared for Colonel Lindbergh to leave New York for his eight-week tour of the U. S., escorted by Donald E. Keyhoe of the information section of the U. S. Aeronautics Bureau. Their itinerary was announced...
Having bubbled over with affectionate excitement for Charles Augustus Lindbergh a month before, Paris last week settled down to a steady schedule of festive welcome for its second detachment of transatlantic air guests-Heroes Byrd, Acosta, Noville, Balchen, Chamberlin and Levine. The last two arrived from Berlin via Austria and Czechoslovakia in their Bellanca ship, Columbia. The first four arrived hollow-eyed and shaken after their fog-ridden cruise, anxious night and wet landing in the America. In Paris they had difficulty mixing sleep with hospitality and with their natural inclinations to make the most of a great moment...
...delegates sent congratulations to Mrs. Evangeline A. Lindbergh, modest mother, high-school teacher in Detroit...
...Lindbergh. The name was, of course, on orating lips more often than even that of Washington or Lincoln. Augustus Orloff Thomas* of Maine, head of the world's federated education associations, invoked the Lindbergh "sporting blood," "sporting sense," "sportsmanship"?and also that of France, whom he pictured forgetting War debts when Colonel Lindbergh arrived?as " 'the wooden horse' by means of which we can break into the walled city of human hatreds?of racial and national jealousies...
...told about being sent to see if Colonel Lindbergh had any "airdrome sweethearts" out on Long Island. She spoke with eagerness of visiting a jail which lodged a Brooklyn murderess "who killed her husband and now is sorry." One of her experiences, as she told it at length, was patly typical of the kind of education the Daily News gives its reporters and readers...