Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...platform in Kandahar's largest square stood throneless King Amanullah and a small ironbound box. Seizing the box firmly, plump Amanullah struggled with the iron hasp. Loudly he grunted, stoutly he tugged. So entertaining was the fat man's performance that though he sweated and wrestled on the platform for two full hours, the entire audience remained. Finally when his most vigorous contortions and loudest grunts began to pall, Amanullah paused, cried aloud to Mohammed for assistance. A final tug, and the box flew open. Perspiring Amanullah held high Mohammed's sacred cloak. Convinced, the Afghan audience...
...rising. Venus shone with especial brilliancy. At precisely that midhour the General woke up of his own accord. He felt refreshed, vigorous. As a revolutionary against Spain from 1895 to 1898 he had learned to sleep deeply in brief periods. He pattered to his bath, a stocky, powerful man of 57. A secretary followed, reading to him summaries of the night's news. The President sloshed himself, dried himself, shaved himself (the secretary reading the while) and dressed himself in formal morning clothes. Like most male Cubans he detests woolen clothes. But this was a day of days...
...great Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick). It made the U. S. air-minded (through the astuteness of Harry Frank Guggenheim). Before the flight, Lindbergh was a sober boy of 25, with four parachute drops from troubled planes as his outstanding feats (see map). This week he is a serious young man, with character hardened against flattery and cajolery, about to be married to Miss Anne Morrow, intent on founding a family and consolidating his fortune...
...especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident. One day in 1917 he grew angry because his private plane cracked up with him. He decided that he could build better ones. A rich lumber and mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest in the U. S. devoted exclusively to the manufacture of airplanes. His transport systems are the largest in the world. Systems and factories were recently bought into United Aircraft & Air Transport Corp...
Died. Fred L. Boalt, of Portland, Ore., onetime editor of the Portland News; at Portland. While serving the United Press in London in 1910 he penetrated to the innermost corridors of Buckingham Palace by saying mysteriously to polite guards and chamberlains: "I am the U. P. man!" Finally he met King Edward VII.'s physician and obtained a world "scoop" in these four words: "The king is dying...