Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that aviation has a great future," he continued. "Through airplanes, the world is going to advance even more than it has with the invention of the steam engine and electricity. The airplane will make everything move faster, and consequently faster progress. I believe that in a very few years airplane trips to Europe from America will not be considered unusual affairs. They will be made by business men and vacationers, and will be thought of as perfectly natural means of journeying. No doubt, within a few years, trips like I am now making will be common. People will...
MOTHER AND SON-Remain Holland (translated by Van Wyck Brooks)- Henry Holt ($2.50). "They came there, they set fire to everything. . . . We ran away. Whenever we stopped, we could hear their feet galloping behind us. They were coming like a steam roller, the whole sky was black with them. Like a hail storm coming up. . . . We ran and ran." To this, the way people scampered away from the terror of the German invasion, Author Rolland, pacifist, finds a parallel in the way people let themselves be driven by the hail storm of their emotions...
...Curls of steam and greasy smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, the engineer spat from his cab upon the platform. "D'ye twig wha's aboord?" he said to the fireman, "Mon, I wud sooner drive Mac any day than the King himsel...
Died. Captain John Bartlett, 83, who introduced 62 years ago the first steam vessel into Newfoundland sealing expeditions; uncle of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, of Peary's polar expedition, and who himself accompanied Peary on his first expedition; at Fredericton...
...King Alexander of Jugoslavia ordered his special train to wait with steam up, night and day, in the station at Belgrade, and finally set out for Bucharest...