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...exchanged witticisms with her husband by radio. Some 18 hours after the start of the 2,400-mile flight, she landed safely at Oakland, Calif, in her red Lockheed Vega monoplane. After powdering her nose and pushing back her tousled hair, Miss Earhart confided to newshawks that she felt "swell." Back in Honolulu Husband Putnam made better copy by saying: "Myself, I'd rather have a baby...
...Morse, a Bell or an Edison overnight, were assembled in Hollywood last week for the National Inventors' Congress. These were not the bigwigs of industrial and academic laboratories. They were the humble rank & file of U. S. idea men, indefatigable purveyors of small ingenuities, perpetual optimists who swell the total of U. S. patents to some 50,000 a year. For example, Albert Giese of Benton Harbor, Mich., had heard a shocking story that 15,000 to 20,000 milkers are blinded every year by the restless tails of cows. His patented cow-tail restrainer was on display last...
...hairbrush. These antics are intended to suggest that all three characters are urbane patricians, filled with charm and worldly wisdom. Lest the point remain in doubt, they speak exclusively in hard-boiled whimsey. When Jeff calls on Mary he kisses her and says: "Perfectly beautiful outside! How inside?" Mary: "Swell, inside." This means that Mary has forgotten Dill...
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...banquet was stuffingly delicious, the histrionics were funny to the serious and hilarious to those in the mood, the dance was long, loud and swell, the company brilliant, comely and congenial in the Dunster manner. Although the less progressive Dunsterites had feared that the mixture of Christmas party (heretofore utterly a stag affair) and dance might not set too well even the most misogynistic were forced to admit that Henry Dunster's House had a roaring fine party Wednesday night...