Word: traveller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smiled, rubbed hands, said "I told you so." When James Rockwell Sheffield, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, had left Mexico City last month for what was announced as a vacation, skeptics had spied upon his baggage, counted some 27 crates of personal and household effects. Who, vacation bound, would travel so heavily freighted? Ambassador Sheffield, they concluded, was not coming back...
...your great burdens . . . ." To which the President replied: "Your formal letter . . . has been received. . . . Your services. . . able and distinguished. . . sincere appreciation . . . courage and ability . . . I shall always feel under obligations to you. . . ." Relieved, the Ambassador remained at the State Lodge for a few days, planned then to travel east, to take ship for Europe...
...fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over it and destroy it with bombs, the dirigible would send out five full-sized planes, carried underneath the bag and launched from built-in runways. Having left the Stadium, the ship could then travel to any European capital and return without having to refuel. It could bring back its five planes, also, for it is so built that planes not only can be launched from it but also land...
...last Josephine Baker was cornered, in her Montmartre night club, by reporters who demanded detailed explanations. Miss Baker, clad in an Afric dance costume of bright feathers, shrugged nervously, grinned, confessed: "Stories sure do travel fast. It was all something I told my friends for a joke-and see how everybody has taken it seriously. The wedding I spoke of was only just a movie wedding...
...small in stature (5 ft., 1 in.). And yet, it is Mr. Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane to travel 300 miles per hour, who carries in his mind the plans for gigantic transatlantic airliners, who is regarded by European experts as the leader in modern design...