Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critic Silenced. Purple with cold, humble in spirit, Major Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York, one of the most vociferous orators in the U. S. House of Representatives, arrived at Boston. The Navy had given him a ride around Cape Cod from New London, Conn., in the S-8 which made a dive on the way. Major La Guardia, gallant aviator, had never before sailed in a submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building...
...Bossy" Gillis strewed his vacant lot with tombstones and household crockery labelled: "The Spirit of Newburyport." He called on Mayor Mike Cashman, punched his jaw and spent two months in jail denouncing "the fossils that run this burg...
...inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth hopped hurriedly into the cockpit of The Spirit of St. Louis, headed for Nicaragua...
...flyer. President Ricardo Jiminez described him as "created expressly by the Supreme Power for marvelous flights . . . exalts the airplane and consecrates it anew." He hovered over Sabana, swooped three times and circled; finally dropped a note that he could not land until police cleared the pasture. They did. The Spirit of St. Louis was trundled into a specially built barbed wire cage. Speeches. He attended the New Year's Ball, postponed from Jan. 1 in his honor. By official decree the champagne tax was removed, slicing its price to $2.50 a bottle, guaranteeing one of the gayest nights...
Panama. At Campo Lindbergh, the Spirit of St. 'Louis circled overhead and slid to earth. A national holiday. Speeches. Sefiora Guilermo Garcia de Paredes, daughter of President Chiari, gave birth to a boy that morning. Sentiment recommended she name him after the famed guest from Northern skies...