Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death came to Authoress Newman. Vanity Fair was embarrassed. Last week came another such occurrence, less embarrassing, no less unhappy. Several months ago a young aviatrix submitted a manuscript to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's The Country Gentleman. It was called "My Life For Aviation." Editor Philip Sheridan Rose accepted the story, changed its title to ''How I Learned to Fly," ordered it to be inserted in the September issue. The name of the authoress was Marvel Crosson. Last week as some 1,600,000 copies of The Country Gentleman were about to appear, Aviatrix Crosson...
...speech of President Lowell, one-time professor of government, exalted a Boston Globe reporter, who wrote: "Pres. Lowell, when he rose to speak, was the recipient of as fine a spontaneously bestowed honor as he is ever likely to receive. Rising to speak before a group of men great in a field of which he has comparatively no knowledge, every one in the house rose with him. This is a custom at all Harvard gatherings, but the percentage of Harvard men in last night's audience was small, as by some magnet attracted, the audience rose to its feet...
...laugh. It was like a domestic goose hopping from a fence with wings spread, feet and tail reaching for the ground. He deflected the autogiro's tail planes downward. They brushed against the ground just before the wheels. Then to show off the machine's stability, he rose slightly. Then he descended, stopping in one demonstration, within a few inches, in none, over ten feet...
...rose (no estimate...
...chance or otherwise, the day after Col. Lindbergh inspected Packard products, old issue Packard stock went up 7¼ points on the New York exchange; new issue Packard stock rose 1⅞ points...