Word: mistral
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Again Costes. Round and round a giant's circle, droning on through the Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné ("Doudou") Costes and his companion Paul Codos, it made its way over flat-roofed, smelly Marseilles, to time-broken Avignon, to musty Narbonne, and then over the same route again. For 52 hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort...
Rushing down and against her went the mistral, the draft which comes from France's coolish central plateau and ends over the warmish Mediterranean. The Graf Zeppelin bucked the mistral. The wind tossed and whirled the ship. A fourth engine went dead. Only one remained to drive her and that was not enough. Commander Eckener headed her south and floated with the wind...
...conduct relief among striking miners-and seduce their handsomest daughter, Martha. In a feverish vision Ann realizes what has happened, pines for Patrick. The horse-faced woman snaps at the situation, meat for malicious machinations, invites Patrick and Ann arid Martha to her Mediterranean castle. For seven days the mistral blows them all madly sane. Martha pitches herself over a cliff into a raging forest-fire; Ann returns wanly to Peregrine...
...learning that South America, too, has much that is good in literature. Mr. Hammond, United States Ambassador to Spain, has said that there are more children studying Spanish in the United States than in Spain. And the woman who is acknowledged the greatest poetess using the Spanish tongue, Gabriela Mistral, is a native of Chile...
...Frederic Mistral French José Echegaray Spanish...