Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those melodramatic days. The Rogers biography reveals the real Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-55) as "swordsman-libertine-man-of-letters." Author of Walt Whitman the Magnificent Idler, Biographer Rogers now finds his pen cluttered at every turn with a man whose short, quick-tempered life-rhythm was the polar opposite of Old Walt's. Cyrano's nose was "long, high-bridged, and bony, curved like a Moorish sword-blade, somewhat cleft at the extremity, and immensely arrogant." Believing the world mocked at his appendage, Cyrano began making diligent study of the art of the sword. He became...
...Polar Fears. Polar Explorer Fridtjof Nansen persuaded the Aero-Arctic Society to hire the Graf Zeppelin for a North Polar excursion next May. Preparations went smoothly until last week when Dr. Hugo Eckener asked his crew whether they would go. His age (61) and physical condition would prevent his going, but Captain Ernst Lehmann, who piloted the airship on her last trans-Atlantic voyage, would lead. Half the crew, remembering the wreck of Explorer Mobile's Italia, refused to endure the anticipated arctic hardships, dangers. Captain Lehmann refused to travel with the newly trained men he would be obliged...
Married. Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, 40, Australian polar flyer. Graf Zeppelin passenger and Hearst correspondent; and Suzanne Bennett, 28. Australia-born actress (Vanities, The Cyclone Lover); in Cleveland...
...manufacturers, the producers of vegetable and animal oils. With whale oil in direct competition and a lower tariff on it threatened, U. S. fine-oil men heard that sailing for the Antarctic on Norway's first seaplane-equipped whaling boats were Pilots Riisar-Larsen and Leutzowe Holm, seasoned polar flyers for the late Explorer Roald Amundsen. Experiment off Alaska has proven the feasibility of spotting whales from the air at long range, resulting in tremendous kills, big cargoes of whale oil, cheap prices for competition with other oils...
Eielson Line. Carl Ben Eielson, Polar flyer with headquarters at Nome, Alaska, last week merged with Bennett & Rodebaugh Co. of Fairbanks and the Wien-Alaska Airways of Nome and Fairbanks. Alaska Airways, Inc., the new concern, is a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. of Delaware whose agent Mr. Eielson now is. He will not again accompany Sir George Hubert Wilkins to Antarctica this winter, as planned. Nor is it yet certain that Sir Hubert himself will go, what with Zeppelin activities and the difficulties of getting a Polar pilot as expert, efficient, companionable as Pilot Eielson...