Word: panning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From grave, Cyclopean Lord Nelson, perched on his column in Trafalgar Square, to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London is full of statuary. Possibly no statues in the whole murky city are better known or more consistently photographed than the two living statues that guard Britain's War Office-the living mounted sentries of the Horse Guards. Splendid, remote and eternal, they stand in their little sentry boxes: two coal-black horses, currycombed to satin smoothness; two six-foot troopers in jackboots, silver breastplates, plumed helmets. Not even when irreverent trippers tempt the chargers with raw carrots, or drop...
...solemn public duty of being whimsical weighs a little heavier each year on Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week the aging Baronet again consented to do his whimsiest. A good many people hoped it would be better than last year, when the creator of Peter Pan opened a fair in his native Scotland with a long story about how he had passed the evening with Mary Queen of Scots and would have brought her along to the fair, only she vanished...
...Sikorsky biplane, Ville de Paris, built in 1927 for Captain Rene Fonck's intended flight to Paris and lately bought by American International Airways, would, it was promised, undertake a flight from some U. S. airport to Santiago, Chile. Objects: the world's non-stop flight record, Pan-American friendship...
President Coolidge paid a magnificent visit to President Machado in January, 1928, when he journeyed in state to Havana to open the Pan-American Conference. Generous and flattering were President Machado's attentions to President Coolidge. They became indeed the "great and good friends" of diplomatic parlance. Mr. Coolidge returned to Washington full of admiration and praise for Cuba and its president. Secretary of State Kellogg took his cue from the White House and anti-Machado agitators kept well under cover...
...seven subsidiary companies. A. C. A.'s Hoyt, although he seems sequestered behind his Hayden, Stone & Co. desk, is kept hopping out of Manhattan on affairs of the four aviation concerns of which he is chairman - Wright Aeronautical, Keystone-Loening, Travel Air, Aviation Corp. of the Americas (Pan-American...