Word: pinedo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This was the first time the South Atlantic had ever been flown from east to west without stopover. Colonel de Pinedo, Italian aviator, de Beires and Vabral had alighted on islands between the continents. St. Roman, Mouneyres and Petit, like Nungesser & Coli, had flown away and never again been seen...
...first man to shake Signor de Pinedo's hand and to plant a kiss upon Signor de Pinedo's cheek was Premier Benito Mussolini, august upon a barge on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The people on the beach, taking their cue, applauded loudly, cheered lustily...
...river Tiber. The thousands who did not have official tickets of admission to the area of goodview were urged by bayonets to herd themselves a mile up the beach. Punctually at the appointed hour, a speck accompanied by lesser specks appeared in the air. . . . Commander Francesco de Pinedo had completed his 26,000-mile, four-continent (Europe, Africa, South America, North America) flight in the Santa Maria...
When asked about his future plans, Commander de Pinedo said: "I am a soldier at my government's orders...
...Rotary." Its statements are dignified nowadays and Rotarians will smile indulgently if they read in the June American Mercury that St. Patrick has been claimed as "first real Kiwanian of the Celtic race."* Rotary no longer needs imaginary prestige. It has its own. Such men as Commander Francesco de Pinedo have accepted honorary Rotaryhood. Into the teeth of Novelist Sinclair Lewis' castigations Rotary now can fling George Bernard Shaw's retort: "Any sort of an organization is better than sitting in an office, trying to do the other fellow. . . ." This retort has had the approval of the sophisticated New York...