Word: return
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Mayor's permission. Neither can British troops. At any hour of day or night the Lord Mayor may have private audience with George V or access to the Tower of London. His diamond sceptre recalls that London was a sovereign city before England had a Throne. In return for all this glory, to which he is elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful the Lord Mayor is expected to spend three times his salary of $50,000 in banquets, pageants, shows. The new Lord Mayor, round and smiling Sir William Waterlow (not Waterloo), joint head...
...RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Clive Brook)?British mysteriousness at its best among international wire tappers...
Instead. Robeson's returning recital was a modest repetition of spirituals he had sung before. As in 1925, critics complained that such a program tends to monotony, that Robeson's range is too limited to offset it. But the lay audience, including such famed white Negrophiles as Novelists Fannie Hurst and Carl Van Vechten, received him ecstatically, applauded tremendously after ''Water Boy,'' "I'm Goin' to Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers...
Goebel Battered. Col. Arthur C. Goebel, who with Lieut. William Davis Jr. won the Dole Flight to Hawaii in 1927, was barrel-rolling over Los Angeles municipal airport last week to celebrate the return of 43 Los Angeles planes from a California tour. While he was upside down a dry cell from his battery broke loose and bashed him on the forehead. Dazed, he continued his inverted flight. When he righted himself and blood slopped into his eyes he landed quickly, was bandaged, then went up again...
...gyroscopic airplane stabilizer consists of two wheels rotating, one vertically, the other horizontally. A wind-driven electric motor gives them energy. If the airplane tilts up, down or sideways, it in effect moves around the stabilizer. When it does so, it makes electrical contacts which act through electromagnets to return the machine to level keel and original direction, by mechanically activating the ailerons, rudder and elevator, all together or separately...