Word: paged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Page 7 March 19 issue of TIME states "Miles Poindexter Spokane, of the City of SEATTLE." . . . Spokane, the City of Sunshine and power, is proud to claim Miles Poindexter as one of its most illustrious citizens. MAJOR G. S. CLARKE, U. S. A. Syracuse...
...stalled his engine at a height of 200 feet, and deliberately crashed to the ground of Staglane Airdrome. The little plane crashed, crumbled; the experts gasped. But from the mess stepped Capt. De Havilland, smiling and nodding his head as if to say: "So you see, gentlemen, these Handley-Page automatic slots of which I have been telling you really do make an airplane fool-proof." The slots, attached to the wing tips, automatically open in case of accident, not unlike a parachute, and let an unhappy pilot down easy...
...which is building a huge plane for service between Oakland, Calif., and Chicago: "I am a sophomore at Vanderbilt University and I am very much interested in commercial aviation. I would like very much to get a job on one of your planes as a messenger boy or page...
...born and bred Mme. Paul Dupuy (née Helen Browne of Manhattan) took charge of the Petit Parisien last year when her husband died. Last week, recovering from an operation, she sat in bed, talked into a telephone, directed her editors to put such-and-such on the front page, to ignore so-and-so. U. S. correspondents called at her Paris apartment and she told them: "I am training my two sons to take over the property when I am too old. My policy as a newspaper publisher is based on the iron rules my husband followed: accurate...
Assuming that the lady is right, the matter presents its curious aspects. Perspicacious gentlemen within these borders have long aimed their darts at the Mrs. Grundy they claim to be masquerading behind Uncle Sam's chin-whiskers and new horn-rimmed glasses. After reading the editorial page of Judge one wonders how it ever manages to appear without being suppressed; after glancing at Mr. Mencken's polemics, one feels that the author faces martyrdom every time he sits down to his typewriter. Now the Mexican lady accuses this land of being the home not of liberty, but of license...