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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Umbrella. In Dayton, "home of flying," the eyes of children looked intently upward. Thirty-five feet above them they saw Arthur Kraft with his mother's silk umbrella. He jumped; the umbrella turned inside out. The doctor examined; reported him unbroken but suffering from shock. Smoke Cloud. Observers saw the black bulk of the lie de France, French liner, approaching New York Harbor. They saw an airplane approach the lie de France, circle it, spouting white smoke. No longer did they see the liner. The smoke test, an Army experiment, had completely swathed the steamship in a shroud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics Notes, Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...camp. Meanwhile, his true friend, John Powell (Charles Rogers), hearing that Bruce has been shot down by the Germans, sallies forth, Achilles-like, to demolish Germania for its destruction of his Patroclus. His sputtering machine-gun bespeaks grim, relentless rage. Prussian planes careen downward, leaving swift trails of smoke. Sausage-shaped dirigibles collapse in flames, Armstrong in the German plane flies joyously toward his heroic friend but is not recognized. With volleys of oaths bursting from his mouth and volleys of bullets coursing from his gun, Powell shoots down the comrade whom he thought he was avenging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard days he' played the banjo and sang songs. He still dances, solo, if notably elated. He loves candy. He does not drink or smoke. He collects art wholesale. He was once rabid on the subject of amateur photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President's Bible | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...causes many sturdy citizens quietly to withdraw; 4) the primitive range and calibre of Sir Harry's voice, which, while it is the very touchstone of his magic, also bears testimony at every note to his oft repeated boast: "I've never done anything for my voice but smoke and drink when I felt so inclined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Harry Flayed | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Spanish Viceroy Don Matias de Galvez (1783), the coffin of Señora Calles was lifted from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess -now somewhat confused with the Virgin Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: On Grasshopper Hill | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

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