Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page after page the reader is held fast to the ground by a million gossamer strands of unimportant detail. Chafe though he may for the moment when he may take off and soar among the clouds, that moment never arrives...
When the Sulanierco anchored at Boston last week her crew, having nurtured the eagle back to health, presented it to the Franklin Park Zoo. Caged, the stupid eagle will soar no more...
...were?the signals were very faint?were there, safe, in a fur-trader's comfortable cabin. They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains. Heavy-laden, the monoplane Alaskan had not been able to soar over the 10,000-foot peaks this time. Wilkins, his right arm fractured, had sat grimly by in the cockpit while Eielson felt his way between peaks at 9,000 feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed out of the fog so close in front that the plane's right landing...
...Servaise. Both men are out to marry money, of which Mary has little. A Wyoming interlude that might have been written by Elinor Glyn in collaboration with Harold Bell Wright and a Campfire Girl, eliminates Millar?and Mary's chastity. When she finally marries André, whose constancy does not soar above the average for Latins, she discovers the comfort resident in observing the adage about glass houses and stone-flinging...
...coal-seamed Alleghanies and factory-dotted coastal plains. It is a tedious train trip; wise people take the sleeper. By automobile it is more pleasant; the roads are excellent and through the Pennsylvania mountains there are gorgeous views. But best of all is to fly it. Then you can soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent's end and the long Atlantic ground swell. Last week...