Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...streets to see the ambassador-conqueror on his way to the city's official reception, on the day when Marshal Ferdinand Foch said to him: "Come right next to me and stand very straight, so that the whole world can see-that you are bigger than I am." Captain Lindbergh blushed, crouched...
...Brussels. Having arrived promptly and greeted Albert, King of the Belgians, with: "I have heard much of the famous soldier-king of the Belgians" Captain Lindbergh was decorated by his Majesty with the order of Chevalier of the Royal Order of Leopold. Next day, he flew to London...
...London. More than 100,000 people were waiting for Captain Lindbergh at the Croydon Aerodrome. They broke down police barriers, swarmed on the landing-field as soon as his plane was sighted. He swooped down looking for barren ground, saw none, returned skyward. On the second attempt, his plane touched ground, but was forced to rise again because hero-worshipers insisted on dogging his path. His third attempt was rewarded with a clear field. Before he could climb out of his plane, the sea of the mob surrounded him-bowling over women, leaving the official reception committee stranded...
...vision of a lone pilot in a grey bird (plane) over the yawning Atlantic caused many people to develop poetic ecstasy. The fruits of more than 200 inspirations reached the New York Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into English...
Darwin's Delight. Arthur Brisbane, Hearstling seer, certainly no poet, found other ways to comment on Captain Lindbergh's flight. One of the aviator's chief regrets was that he had not been able to see a whale. "It is too bad," said Mr. Brisbane, "for Lindbergh, flying low to study spouting whale; the whale studying Lindbergh with its tiny eyes would have been a sight to delight Darwin...