Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: The cockles of my ole heart surged with joy, and I hurrahed and voiced my feelings at, the top of my voice when I saw the picture of "Lindy" at last adorning TIME. . . . It must be that the Editor of TIME is a seer who looks into the future, and who believes in keeping the best to the last and making the most appropriate statements in the most logical TIME...
...Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into the most sumptuous suite on the Texas at Brooklyn Navy Yard, they inferred the improvement was in honor of the President. But a deck officer said: "Not at all! We're putting those in for our Admiral." Caesar is not greater to his sailors...
...goes) the Texas was steaming full speed past Long Island. One of the deck officers on watch was a young Naval Reserve officer, in private life a wealthy yachting dilettante. The waters around eastern Long Island were as familiar to him as had been his nursery floor. When he saw Fire Island dead ahead of the Texas he knew what he saw and rushed from one to another of his superiors giving the alarm, asking permission to change the course. One and all, the Texas' officers pooh-poohed the young busybody, who dashed at last to Rear Admiral Victor Blue...
...Angeles saw no speck, wheeled for home. She lives at Lakehurst, N. J., where she was housed after 1200 nautical miles cruising, 700 of them at sea. Newspapers detailed her movements calmly. It did not occur to many readers that December dangers which had drowned the Dawn threatened the dirigible. She was too big, too safe to shrink from weather which might kill a heavier-than-air machine. Some few were perplexed. If dirigibles are so dependable, they wondered, why all this bother about airplanes. Why not build dirigibles instead...
...appearance, Mr. Taylor suggests the men of wealth of a century and a half ago, the merchants who sat in the Tontine Coffee House from whose windows they could see the harbor and their ships. Anyone who saw him walking down Broad Street would realize immediately that such dignity and serene confidence could belong only to a bank policeman or its director. The picture of Myron Taylor that was published in news-sheets last week seemed to belong between the two older faces that appeared at the same time. Supported by the crisp ruff of a wing tipped collar, severe...