Word: near
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steamer Aztec sighted them progressing mysteriously northwards, 463 miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec. Manifestly they either were lost or deliberately returning toward Europe. Near Cape Finisterre, clogging in a gasoline feed pipe forced them to descend, the impact smashing the plane's wings. The duo, swimming near the disabled plane, were immediately rescued by the crew of the Samos. They had described a giant arc over the Atlantic; with a minimum cruising speed...
...Near Lake Savant, Ontario, an amorous redskin sang songs to his Indian maiden. Bored, she fled into the woods with a more desirable suitor. The jilted, jealous brave methodically set about firing the entire forest area. Detected by a forest ranger, he retreated; was later arrested by the famed inescapable redshirt police...
Married. Dr. Benvenuto Hauptmann, 28, son of famed playwright Gerhart Hauptmann; and Princess Elise of Schaumburg-Lippe; at Dwasieden Castle, near Sassnitz, Germany...
...that the popularity of "talkies," particularly Vitaphone, was due largely to ability to present to audiences in Pottsville, Pa., or Missoula, Mont., stage stars who otherwise would not be heard and seen in such towns. A report that the autumn hits will be Voca-filmed, distributed among controlled theatres near and far, to run contemporaneously with the successful pieces, was not denied...
Said Fred Stone, acrobatic, clean-show comedian, "I'll take it up myself now." Into his Travel-Air biplane he climbed. Ten minutes later the engine died, the plane sideslipped, crashed into the beet-field of one Max Winkler near Trumbull Field, New London, Conn. Both Stone-legs were broken; he may not dance again. In a few weeks he would have received a pilot's license...