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Lieut. Hoppin, known as a careful pilot,* met a nasty-looking rain squall between Binghamton and Cortland, N. Y. He thought it best to land and selected a field on a stock farm. The field was knobbly. The ship bounced and turned a somersault. Mr. Sweet, having unbuckled his safety-belt, was pitched against the cockpit wall. A head blow killed him. Lieut. Hoppin, belted in his seat, was unbruised...
...mountain peaks. He found a rift and streaked out over the Caribbean. For 100 miles seeing no land the flyer contemplated the two tinges of blue sky and bluer sea. Once he dipped to scoot cheerily close to the steamer Amsterdam. Once he scuttled through a sudden rain squall. Land notched the horizon far ahead. From there he flew over nearly nine hundred miles of "Islands in the Lesser Antilles. At St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands he got down. Speeches. When he left the following day a family of Morons, island aristocrats, petitioned the government to change the name...
...weather persistently spat drizzle and squall in the face of the proposed flight, holding the aviatrix and her copilot, George Haldeman, at Roosevelt field, L. I. Another aviatrix, Mrs. Francis Grayson, appeared on the scene, ready to snatch the honor of being first woman over by hopping from Old Orchard, Maine. Then, Miss Elder took off?weather or no weather...
...ballots: Alice Brady (Sour Grapes, The Witch, Lady Alone, The Thief), Ruth Gordon (Saturday's Children), Rose McClendon (In Abraham's Bosom), Helen Menken (The Captive), Ethel Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion, The Second Man), Jane Cowl (The Road To Rome), Blanche Yurka (The Squall). Actors honorably mentioned: Walter Huston (The Barker), Frank Wilson (In Abraham's Bosom), Morgan Farley (An American Tragedy), Lee Tracey (Broadway), Holbrook Blinn (The Play's the Thing), E. G. Robinson (Brothers Karamazov, Juarez and Maximilian...
...Squall-A Gypsy vampire in a Spanish household causing mild drama...