Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago, for doing all these things for aviation he received the first "Spirit of St. Louis Aeronautical Medal," just established by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers...
Stephenam Victor Joseph Noel Otto alias Otto Debeney, 29, jokester, took his own life in his native city of Brussels, last week, by leaping from the third story window of a dingy lodging house. Gallant and daring his spirit, fecund his imagination. In 1919, after deserting from the Belgian Army, he appeared in Coblenz dressed as a Belgian officer. Announcing himself as an emissary from King Albert, he decorated Major General Henry Tureman Allen, commander of U. S. forces in Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before...
...forward step was made in 1876 when they exhibited a Model Vienna Bakery at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. From the fame of this exhibit came an increased demand for Fleischmann's yeast. Soon there was a Fleischmann plant on Long Island, then another at Peekskill, N. Y, Guiding spirit of the early Fleischmann company was Charles Fleischmann, who died in 1897. It was under the leadership (1897-1925) of the late Julius Fleischmann that the company went through its major expansion period. Following his death, his brother, Major Max C. Fleischmann, stepped to the front...
...Royal Italian Automobile Club, Fascist-governed, announced that in future they would publish in all Fascist newspapers the names and addresses of all Italians who purchase foreign motor cars, "A proscription list for bad Italians who betray their most elementary duties to the nation out of a spirit of automobilistic snobbery...
Less atonal in its harmonies but in spirit akin to Composer Ernst Krenek's much- discussed Jonny Spielt Auf, the bathroom opera's subject matter is a farcical treatment of divorce. The soprano's opening song becomes a duet when a man, employed by her husband to provide divorce grounds, enters the room. The duet becomes a trio when another feminine guest of the hotel comes in to demand the use of the bath. Finally the noise grows so loud that all the employes stream in. The finale is exciting, uproarious...