Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayday twilight O'er the bright skies pearl-coloured clouds float through the emerald space, While on the shore the wavelets Lightly take hands, rise and subside, dance like enamoured naiads. Into such a scene on the last day of May roared the poet in his speed boat. Like a mad modernist, scoffing at his own lyrics, Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed...
Married. Francis Huger McAdoo, 38, lawyer, son of William Gibbs McAdoo, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson; to Mrs. Mary I. Bovee Taylor; in Manhattan. Both are divorced. The speed with which Mrs. Ethel Preston McCormack McAdoo received her Paris divorce in 1923 caused Premier Raymond Poincare to institute an inquiry...
...plane or the breaking of straps which held him in the cockpit, at the bottom of the loop. Even though his plane held together Lieutenant Doolittle came out of the loop with bloodshot eyes and a slight hemorrhage of the lungs. At one point he had attained a speed...
Traveling at the speed of a sprinter, thrusting a bamboo pole in the ground at the proper moment, Sabin W. Carr of Yale flung himself over a bar that was poised exactly 14 feet above the ground, established a new world's pole vault record. The highest previous flight, 13 feet, 11⅜ inches, was made by Charles Hoff a Norwegian...
Dirty, bumpy bricks at Indianapolis Speedway will once a year bring fame and fortune to an automobilist, if he will travel over them a sufficient number of times at a speed in the neighborhood of 100 miles per hour. This year the winner of the 500-mile "classic" on the two and a half mile track is a youngster comparatively unknown, a dirt track specialist-George Souders, 27, who spends his more serious moments studying mechanical engineering at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind. In a Duesenberg special, he covered the 500 miles of bricks at an average speed...