Word: solo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlikely that John Daniel Hertz remembers going to Chicago at the age of five; long journeys, to children, are merely a blur. But certainly he has a distinct impression of the beating his father gave him, which amused him to run away from home at eleven. He solo his school books for $2, took up residence at the Waifs' Home, got a job as copy boy for the Morning News. Evenings, he hawked papers on Chicago street corners. His father made him come home and go tc school. Six months of that, and he ran away again. Back...
...initial stanza was listless to the extreme, brightened only by occasional solo assaults by Paul, fleet Canadian defense player, and Jackson's defense of the goal. A few minutes before the period ended, Captain John Tudor '39 and M. N. Stanley '30 swept down the ice, narrowly missing sharp angle shots...
Richard E. James, 17, of Flushing, L. I., a fortnight ago flew a Travel Air all alone from San Francisco home. Because he was the first boy under 21 to make a transcontinental solo flight, the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation gave him a $1,000 prize, Siemens & Halske Motor Co. (whose engine drove his plane) gave him a silver loving cup, and, last week, President Coolidge shook his hand...
...past a cathedral, or perhaps the Grand Palais, slackens his pace a bit, then passes by on the other side. On he goes over the bridge to the Left Bank and there he stops again, this time for an Anise de Lozo and following effects are appropriately blurred. A solo violin suggestive of charming broken English is first to clear away the haze. There comes a swift transition and Gershwin has the blues, bad blues, until he meets a friend, starts off again jauntily to a final noisy walking theme that foretells an hilarious evening...
...heart is in the air; notwithstanding that he never learned to fly. He tried hard. He spent weeks, months, under the patient tutelage of Lieut. Frederick H. Becker at the Curtiss Field School. He got along all right when Becker was with him. But on his first solo flight he sat frozen at the controls, and missed collision in a crowded sky by sheer...