Word: mid-air
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...first period, when Frame received a pass from Grover, right outside forward, and booted the ball in. Vogel, back in the line-up after suffering an injury in an early practice session, took a pass from Frame for the second score. A free kick by Carter was intercepted in mid-air by Frame, who drove the ball past the Bridge water goalie. Vogel booted the final counter in the last period...
...twentieth century mind seems unwilling to accept characters and incidents hung in mid-air by an author's fancy. Proust, Joyce. "Orlando." "Death Comes to the Archbishop," and may I say my own work all verge into the province of memories, diaries, historical narrative, and autobiography...
...canvas walls of this flying tent. ... I have visualized myself gracefully draped over a saloon window ledge romantically viewing the moonlit sky. The men . . . have reminded each other not to forget evening jackets and boiled shirts in their baggage. We have drawn ourselves lovely pictures of dining elegantly in mid-air with Commodore Eckener at the head of a flower-decked table . . . but . . . leather coats, woollies and furs will be our evening dress. Hot soup and steaming stew more welcome than cold caviar and chicken salad...
...down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism of The Spirit...
...Kelly's theory was that if he thus roosted in mid-air for eight days his reward would be great.* Meanwhile he reaped a small reward by displaying from his stool a banner with the stark device: Baby Peggy at Loew's State Theatre...