Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...San Salvador. Three cannon blasts bumped the air and the thickening crowd at the air field cheered. Col. Lindbergh was due in one hour. Late comers chugged eagerly up, arguing excitedly at tripled taxi prices; their eyes on the sky. Presently the shattering "Viva Lindbergh." The crowd charged the plane; Col. Lindbergh screamed them back. 'It took 15 minutes for his escort to push him through the crowd to the hangar where waited President Pio Romero Bosque, the Cabinet, the General Staff, diplomats...
Elected. Jacob Bertha Levison, president of Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., founder of the San Francisco Symphony Society; to be president of the Musical Association of San Francisco (sponsors of the orchestra...
...incredible gift of relating his own stories. He acts them out on the platform. His strength is tremendous. One evening I saw him fear up 30 New York telephone directories, ripping them right in half. To illustrate his likability I can best fell you that Mayor Rolph of San Francisco was financially interested in a cargo that Luckner sent to the bottom. He was so taken in by the Count's congenial ways that he presented him with the golden Key to the city and sent a cable to President ven Rindenburg congratulating him on having such...
Good old fashioned California Christmas weather beamed on the bunkers as the Pacific winter golf season began at San Diego. Leo Diegel from far away, frozen White Plains, N. Y., holed a 50 foot putt on the home green to win the first round with 67, five under par. When famed professionals from all over U. S. had completed 54 holes Diegel's score was still low, 214. For this the San Diego Country Club stuffed $1,000 in his Christmas stocking...
Western ways prevailed on a San Francisco gridiron as the allstar Eastern team lost loosely to Pacific players in the name of Christmas charity. To be sure, the triumph of Far Western football was slightly alloyed by the potent presence in their line-up of Joel Hunt from the Texas Aggies. Hunt scored a touchdown three minutes after the game began and stopped a punch on the jaw from Weinstock, Western Maryland tackle, just before it ended. Weinstock was ejected from the game. Between these Eastern mishaps the West scored another touchdown and a safety, the East one touchdown. Score...