Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week rumor rose that for next summer a direct flight to China was proposed for the first of flyers. An accomplished and reliable Chinese gentleman, also an aviator, sponsored the rumor. Skeptics pointed out that such a spectacular bid for Chinese good will was among the more remote problems of immediate statecraft. Hard-headed U. S. men, soft-hearted U. S. women grumblingly asked when the dangerous far-flung flights of Col. Lindbergh would cease...
...spent in St. Louis. The next day as her famed offspring in Mexico City was piloting on his first flight President Plutarco Elias Calles, the monoplane sprang to Tulsa, Okla. The third sunset found her in Brownsville, Texas. Next day up from the crowded field at Mexico City rose Col. Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis. Swallowed in the clouds he missed the monoplane which he had flown to meet. Shouts from the field of "Vivi Senora Leenbaire" as Mrs. Lindbergh stepped out of the Ford plane. She met her wandering boy an hour later at the American Embassy...
...Rose the question who should be the first reader of this memorable first book. The answer was: Amy Loveman...
...Banks and investment houses are notorious for the low salaries they pay their clerks. Handsomest presents reported last week were First National Bank of New York's bonus of a year's salary to each of its employes; the half-year's salaries paid by Hoit, Rose & Troster, Manhattan security sellers; the quarter-year's salaries paid by Harris, Ayers & Co., another Manhattan investment house...
Pushing back his chair at a banquet of the Maine Society of New York, Congressman Carroll L. Beedy of Maine rose and raged at the press through a microphone...