Word: tail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Margery Allingham, the eighteen-year-old novelist whose first book, "Black'er-chief Dick", published by Doubleday, Page & Company, is a swaggering pirate tale of Restoration England, claims as literary godfather the novelist, William McFee. Since her first publishing venture. "The Wag-tail," a magazine written in a penny exercise book for which McFee was foreign correspondent and eight-year-old Margery managing editor, writer of the editorial, short story, serial, answers to correspondents and advertisements, the older writer has followed her career with friendly interest...
...England will not admit that it is the tail of anything, but if it should, it could declare it was the tail which wags the U. S. dog?because of the number of New Englanders high placed in the Government. Its sons include: President Coolidge of Massachusetts; Chief Justice Taft of Connecticut; Secretary of War Weeks of Massachusetts; Speaker Gillett of Massachusetts (if reflected); Majority Leader Lodge in the Senate (also Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee) ; Chairmen of every "important" Senate Committee, except three, to wit?McLean of Connecticut, Banking and Currency; Hale of Maine, Naval Affairs; Colt...
...Keokuk, Ia., a dog named Prince chased his tail for 20 minutes and dropped panting on the floor...
...flying age did not deter him. He mastered the technical mechanics of the aeroplane and took his tests in cross-country flying, taking off, landing. A few days ago in a de Haviland plane he took and successfully passed the final tests, including all the " acrobatic " maneuvers? loop, roll, tail spin, Immelmann turn, falling-leaf, spin, spiral side slip, forward slip in landing, etc. At a luncheon of the Army and Navy Club in Washington, General Patrick received the silver wings of a flying pilot?the only Major General who had ever attained that distinction...
...Barling Bomber is being assembled by the Army Air Service at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. It has a wing spread of 120 feet, a height of 28 feet, measures 65 feet from nose to tail. Fully loaded, the bomber weighs 20 tons, is propelled by six Liberty motors with a total of 2,400 horsepower, dwarfs every airplane built up to this day. To keep the dimensions within reasonable limits, three wings are used to give the enormous carrying capacity required. The plane represents an investment of half-a-million dollars, and since the first flight of a machine...