Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twins, notable since the oozy dawn of civilization, are Crime and Corruption. They frolic now from Shanghai to Paris, unashamed. Occasionally, they rear their heads up into the light and scare some, shock others. Sometimes they pop up in Washington, but their favorite modern playgrounds are in manufacturing cities where sprawling factories belch and whistle, where grimy alleys creep between frame hovels, where workingmen need stimulation Saturday nights. The so-called "better element" becomes excited only on occasions when the Rockefeller Foundation calls Detroit "the vilest city in the country," or when a newspaper publisher is murdered in Canton, Ohio...
...entered the plane's rear cabin. His mother and father were in Constantinople; he would go and see them. Little M. Clavier, whose wife and three children waited at home, said: "I will never leave France again...
...motors were roaring. M. le Capitaine René Fonck had thrown away his last cigaret,* waved his last diffident adieu and sat at the controls. By him sat Lieut. Lawrence W. Curtin, aide to Rear Admiral William A. Moffett of the U. S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. The S-35 lumbered forward. The crowd raced beside...
...them) plagued sad Capitaine Fonck for days afterwards, with "insinuations" (he did not describe them). He said he believed he could have controlled the plane if a rudder had not been sheared off by the broken "dolly," which Jacob Islamoff, he thought, had released by the lever in the rear cabin...
Engaged. Charlotte MacDougall, daughter of Rear Admiral William Dugald MacDougall; to Henrik de Kauffmann, Minister of Denmark to China and Japan...