Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sky Piano. In the baggage room of the Graf Zeppelin on her westward trip this year (TIME, Aug. 12) was a grand piano. In the salon was Pianist Gregoire Gourevitch. He thought it would be appropriate to play Wagner's opus picturing the Valkyries' ride above the clouds while his audience was similarly situated. As the piano did not fit into the Zeppelin's salon, Pianist Gourevitch and the Valkyries had to wait for his concert last week in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza Hotel...
Third Day. At Paris, drowsy tourists and blowsy workpeople heard a hum and saw the Graf Zeppelin in the morning sky. She soared around the city's centre, then wafted towards Friedrichshafen...
...opened up his checkbook to the sky...
...sky showed no expression...
...soar over St. Louis, Mo., were perplexed last week. No idle fliers themselves, they were obliged to alight now and then, to eat, to drink, to sleep, or just to consider with angry red eyes the creature, much bigger than a buzzard, which droned around in circles through the sky all through one week, all through the next week, on into another week, without ever coming down. Now and then another big creature would roar up from the ground and hover solicitously over the soaring one, evidently feeding it or something through a long hose. Other creatures would...