Word: umbertos
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...General Umberto Nobile, designer and skipper of the ship, had been touring U. S. cities to the great delight of Italo-Americans with Fascist leanings. These put on their black shirts and let their "Vivas" echo from Seattle to Manhattan. Such was Nobile's triumph, in fact, that an impression somehow crept into public prints that he had been responsible not only for handling the Norge but for her accurate navigation as well...
Quizzical folk wondered what would be the condition of Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen 19 years hence. It was 19 years ago that Walter Wellman attempted to reach the North Pole in a balloon. He was forced back to Spitzbergen, but tried again in 1909, when his bag exploded. In 1910 he set off to float to Europe from Atlantic City, but his bag fell, off Halifax. In 1894 he had tried to reach the Pole with dog and sledge, being halted only 200 miles short of success. . . . Last week, Walter Wellman occupied a jail cell in Brooklyn...
...Colonel Umberto Nobile of the Norge...
...Flight. Thus flew Roald Amundsen of Norway, Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S., Umberto Nobile of Italy, Lieutenants Hjalmar Rüser-Larsen, Emil Horgan, Oscal Omdal and Gustav Amundsen (nephew) of the Norwegian navy, Mechanician Natale Cecioni of Italy, Meteorologist Fenn Malmgren of Sweden, their eight aides and dog Titina, in the semirigid dirigible Norge...
...cabin windows and their chief ordered that the nose ropes be cast off. The blunt silvery cigar tilted heavenward to an angle of 45 degrees. Then propellers roared, stern ropes were flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first leg of her Rome-to-Nome transpolar...