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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author, a recent graduate of this institution, confines herself to the girl's college alone; but if, as she seems to think, higher education at one of the best feminine institutions is nothing more than a farce, it would be too sanguine to suppose that even the top rank of men's universities are above criticism. Unfortunately for Miss Warfield, however, she does not prove her case. She says with the satiric generalization which has become popular in the last decade, that the typical "college woman." If she hered; and, largely as a result of this veneer, thin but adequate...
...headspring, which, also, I did among other turns, is an entirely different movement. The acrobat stands erect on his feet, bends forward until the top of his head touches the ground and springs over to his feet after the manner of the handspring; but hands do not touch the ground, nor shoulders, nor any part of the body except the top of the head...
...Top hats and soft hats mingled in cosmopolitan proximity as a crowd both smart and representative of all the provinces of Canada made the merry best of a damp drizzling afternoon. Vice-Royalty attended in the person of Freeman Freeman-Thomas Viscount Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada. In a glittering open coach with outriders and postilions, His Excellency and Viscountess Willingdon rode onto the course; and then, both lovers of horseflesh, strolled eagerly out to the paddock. Only at the last moment before the Plate did they seek the Governor-General...
...Inside Loop." The usual stunt loop-the-loop ("inside loop")?during which the plane rises and is on its back at the top of the loop? brought death to Lieut. Walter J. Ligon, reserve officer, and Ivan L. Hall, student aviator, at Clover Field, Santa Monica, Calif., last week. The wings of their plane collapsed in coming out of a loop at an altitude of 2,000 feet...
...Outside Loop." Imagine sitting upright on top of an enormous flywheel, 2,000 feet in diameter. You are strapped to its outer rim. The wheel is in motion, whirling you forward and downward at a speed which increases from 150 miles per hour to 280 miles per hour when you are upside down, beneath it. Then you are carried upward to your original position and are safe, for this wheel will not torture you with another revolution...