Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to land," scribbled Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd on a slip of paper. He crawled back through the fuselage of the giant Fokker monoplane, America, handed the paper to Lieut. George 0. Noville who was lying on the floor, exhausted, temporarily deafened by the roar of the motors. "It was just as if he were handing me an invitation to tea," said Lieutenant Noville. The paper was shown to Lieut. Bert Balchen who was piloting the plane, and to Bert Acosta who was so deaf and so miserable that he did not seem to care what happened...
...Caillaux, then, divorced from onetime Mile. Henriette Rinouard, who, as Mme. Caillaux, shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro on March 16, 1914, because his paper was attacking her husband? Naturally M. Caillaux has not divorced so faithful a wife. Instead, the lady to whom he referred was his wife by an earlier marriage, Mme. Gueydan. She, a woman of the greatest selfmastery, has retained a position of dignity and honor, despite the astounding ups and downs of M. Caillaux who, for example, was convicted by the French Senate of "plotting against the security of the state abroad...
...Soon after we moved here, I took off the dirty old wall paper from the kitchen-several layers of it-and found, underneath, pictures of all sorts of birds. Some of the birds I recognized and some I had never seen. They were right pretty...
...little later I got tired of the paint and put on green wall paper. Those birds have flown away for good, I guess...
...play a game which is allegedly neither elevating nor depressing. It used to be called "Categories," but was renamed "Guggenheim" to make it more popular or something.* Authorities agree it is a safe game at mixed parties. The chief requirements for play, besides a "Guggenheim" book, are pencils, paper, patiences...