Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stunned with disappointment. A bewildered murmur that rose to a roar swept the crowd. Here & there were a few boos. Then suddenly, starting from nowhere, they began to sing "America" until the night sky seemed to tremble with their resolute voices. Later in small groups they drifted back to their crazy shacks and shelters on the mudflats...
...prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles. An arclight, most powerful ever rigged up in Dublin, would write in the sky such inscriptions as "Hail the King-Adoremus-Laudamus Te." President Eamon de Valera's journal, The Irish Press, urged the Irish to plant trees in commemoration of this event, "one of the greatest ... in Irish history." So that visitors might drink freely of Ireland's excellent whiskies...
...From the sky, after a terrible flight, come the pigeons with news from the front-the worst. Arigho flies off to join the troops, leaving Allen commandant in his stead. At the Staff meeting in Dublin, measures to meet the crisis are harangued. The politicians, represented in the army by Commandant Malone, want only to pull their chestnuts out of the fire; but Allen, to his own surprise, proposes Catherine's plan. Malone's men accuse him of treason. Before they can court-martial him he escapes with Brigid and Catherine, to the friendly aviation base at Rathdonnel...
...ensuing breathless events Allen loses everything-his friend, his wife, his military honor. He suffers the martyrdom without which Catherine predicted nothing valuable for Ireland or for himself could be won. Outcast, Catherine accompanies him. Like her carrier pigeons, that fly always in one direction through the sky's abyss, the two are oriented by a single ideal, head instinctively toward its consummation, as the pigeons head towards home...
...working crew of 13 and Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance, Switzerland whence had begun her stumbling ten-month flight...