Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conspicuous among the passengers booked for the Atlantic trip were C. E. Rosendahl, commander of the Los Angeles; Count Brandenstein Zeppelin, 30n-in-law of the late great Count; Herr Brandenburg, chief of the German Air Ministry; Lady Drummond Hay,* Hearst correspondent, who will be the first woman ever to have made such a crossing. During the trial flight she wrote: "It is a strange sensation, sleeping in cabins attached to gas bags swinging 7,000 feet in the air between the full moon and the glassy North Sea. . . . We have a million cubic feet of gas but no heat...
Meanwhile officials at Lakehurst made ready to receive their guest; New Englanders remembered how they had slept too late the last time three years ago when the German-built Los Angeles arrived, resolved upon a wary eye this time; wealthy Manhattanites talked about booking passage for the return trip...
...Drummond-Hay, C. M. G., His Majesty's Consul General in Syria, whose second wife she became in 1920 when he was 74 years of age. With Karl H. Von Wiegand, Lady Drummond-Hay will keep Hearst papers in constant touch by radio with the progress of the trip...
...Philadelphia Orchestra concert at the Academy of Music. But there was the same blond halo and the wildest acclaim Philadelphians permit themselves. Their prodigal was home and great was the rejoicing. He had had them worried.. All manner of mystic rumors had drifted in from his Far East trip. He would return. He would not return. He had been hypnotized by Indian and Javanese music. At best he could never come back the same...
...Vera Cruz episode and the outbreak of the World War kept him much occupied with naval affairs during 1914. In March, 1915, he was appointed National Commissioner to the Panama Pacific Exposition, and visited San Francisco with the vice president, on the same trip inspecting various naval properties and ships on the Pacific coast. The year 1916 was wholly occupied in doing what was possible under the existing law in getting the Navy Department prepared for the threatened hostilities...