Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what the Associated Press chose to quote from your editorial. But this I do know--my own college career was made possible by the Employment Bureau: I needed money and was willing to work. I was asked intimate questions by the Bureau, and I did not have too much pride to answer them. Had the Bureau shown the "indifference" you recommend, my college days might have ended prematurely...
Then, assuming his psychic powers-an alleged natural gift in which he takes great pride-he predicted dire war: "I am even certain that many of those powers talking about disarmament do so in order to inspire greater confidence, thus disguising their purposes. According to my opinion, we shall go through another and more awful war at the latest in 1937, a war which will last only a few days and possibly only a few hours...
Eighteenth Day. Typhoon and tidal wave struck Kiushiu Island, Japan (see p. 22) on which is Omura, where the Pride of Detroit sulked in her hangar. So boisterous were the skies that the Pride dared...
Nineteenth Day. The Pride of Detroit dropped at Tokyo. There Mr. Schlee found a cablegram: "Daddy: Please take the next boat home to us. We want you. (signed) Rosemarie." Rosemarie is ten. Soon wires under the Pacific were alive with news that the around-the-world flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu...
Eighth Day. Two dusty and unshaven men crawled from the cabin of the Pride of Detroit after she was wheeled into a hangar at the British Air Service Field at Karachi, India. They were greeted by a Sunday crowd; British officers; the American Consul. They reported the Pride functioning flawlessly, despite the heat...