Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When he [Dr. Stresemann] takes a walk in the olive garden of Locarno he has the habit of stretching out his hand to receive rather than to give." Significance. At one stroke the problem of the Occupied Rhineland has been officially removed by the occupying Power from the plane of military security to that of financial security...
...flap its wings. Alan Cobham, British aviator in the plane, looked down and started with amazement, for scowling up at him from beneath their heavy orbital ridges were the very dragons of his nursery books. And they were alive-huge, dark monsters nine feet long, who raised themselves on post-like legs to glare at the strange thing in the air. They showed no fear: during a million years all beasts on Komodo had fled from their voracity...
...fellow caught the night plane for Chicago and was talking with the professor in Los Angeles when I sailed for Europe. He came back to a deserted Cambridge. I can just see him emptying the mailbox. Someone said he went into the automobile business...
...looking with bright uncomprehending eyes at the book she held. Last May, when the world was in an uproar over Charles Augustus Lind- bergh's flight, Helen Keller had been informed of the incredible fact with frenzied nudges, incoherent pummelings. Now she was able to picture to herself the plane caroming through the darkness above the sea. Her sentient fingers touched the tiny mountain range that led across her page. Now he was over the green meadows of Ireland. Helen Keller smiled. When he landed, she could imagine herself hearing those cheers in a Paris twilight...
...FRENCH WIFE?Dorothy Graham ?Stokes ($2). Victor de Lambesc left his American wife in Touraine while he set off in an airplane for Africa and another woman. On the way, his plane fell and squashed him to death. This left Denise de Lambesc, netted in a foreign tradition, to fashion a slow existence for herself, for her two sons. Faced with the choice of a new husband, she at last declines the proposals of her husband's stepbrother although these are reinforced by the per- suasions of his family. Instead she marries her U. S. lawyer, Bryce Sutherland (clubs...