Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh, MacDonald was no veteran air-mailman, parachute-jumper, stuntist. Last May MacDonald made one round trip from England to India, having had 10 hours' previous solo flying. Said the New York World: ". . . harebrained effort . . ."; said the United Press: ". . . a great sporting gesture...
Missing-between San Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western...
...years ago, in the father's presidential campaign, both LaFollette sons were on the touring train. Observant people noticed then that there was "mo; of the old man" in Brother Phil than in Brother Bob. It was in his longer, square-cut face; Brother Bob's face is chubby-round, more like that of his stateswomanly mother, Belle Case LaFollette. It was in his voice, a sharper, stronger, more whip- cracking voice than Brother Bob's. It was in his bodily movements ? quick, alert, crisp; Sculptor Jo Davidson, troubled about the hands of his statue of Old Bob, caught...
...Scarcely restored to health but convalescent on a round-the-world sea voyage is Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of the Conservative ("Tory") Cabinet in which he is Foreign Sec- retary...
...Excursions. Like some chain grocery and drug stores who make special sales of two items for the cost of one plus one cent, the Boston & Maine Railroad has decided to sell holiday excursion round trip tickets between any two of its stations for the regular fare plus one dollar. It is a railroad innovation...