Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beside the shadowy Spirit bulks the heavier black shape of the great Ford-Stout monoplane in which Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh is presently to fly back to her Detroit schoolroom after the family Christmas. Mother and son stand together for a moment, bidding farewell. Col. Lindbergh shakes hands with Gen. Alvarez who brought to him the good-byes of President Plutarco Elias Calles...
Guatemala City. Through the streets of a 400-year-old town a gay white float is passing by, "The Spirit of St. Louis," made all in flowers in honor of the guest. The real Spirit is lodged in an open hangar guarded by barefoot Indian soldiers. In the city Col. Lindbergh is making his grave, honest speeches. He is the city's first adopted son; receiving a medal engraved with the national bird, the quetzal...
Belize. The Spirit of St. Louis hovers uncertainly over a polo field, swerves downward, barely missing a skein of telegraph wires, touches and runs almost to the field's end; The crowd cries in wonder. Col. Lindbergh has brought his plane down on a field where none thought he could dare to land. The first land plane in history has settled on the soil of British Honduras. He lunches with Governor John Burdon, eating Honduran grapefruit. Public holiday is declared. Col. Lindbergh tinkers anxiously over a broken air pipe, minor mid-air accident to the hitherto uncannily flawless mechanism...
...fame (TIME, June 27) by his quiet, skillful arrest of Leon Daudet, editor of L'Action Francaise. Theatric, irrepressible M. Daudet had barricaded himself against the police and was supported by stalwart young Royalists armed with canes. Moreover public sympathy was with Daudet-both because of his high spirit and because the offense for which he had been sentenced to jail was merely technical. In such circumstances the arrest had to be nonviolent. M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe solved his problem by appearing in impeccable full dress at the head of irresistible forces of police and beseeching...
...George Kelly has dared to be more complicated. There are many hours conversation and some thought to be expended on this tragedy after the final curtain. It is a play of two people who have been so busy enjoying and acquiring things of the world that something of the spirit has died within them. They fall in love, are both unequal to its challenge. The girl dies, poisoned by her own incapacity; the man stands groping, helpless...