Word: tarascon
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Villacoublay, French Government airdrome, saw the completion of a seaplane with a 500-h.p. motor capable, it is said, of flying for 34 hours, and thus fitted for the Paris-New York flight. Two war veterans will fly it: Francis Coli and Paul Tarascon. The latter acquired a wooden leg in pre-War flying and later shot down eleven German planes in battle...
...dilettante free-lance, reverting from the broader and more serious policy of recent years. The December number leaves an impression of fine skein, filmy, evanescent. One looks in vain for substance. The featured interview with Venizelos may have been intended for thought, but the style of Tartarin de Tarascon hardly enhances the glory that was, and is not, Greece...