Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NYRBA is due much pioneering glory NYRBA's President, Ralph A. O'Neill, piloted the first commercial plane between the United States and Buenos Aires blazing the virgin aerial trail from New York to Miami to Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires; NYRBA planes were the first to cross the perilous Andes between Santiago and Buenos Aires many weeks before they were followed by Pan American Grace Airways; NYRBA's pilots explored the lower West Indies and the East Coast of South America to the Guianas many weeks before Lindbergh "blazed the trail" to Paramaribo; explored thousands...
...first, are to appear and bring the best from Brazil, Peru, Chile, and others, culled by him, edited by him. Since leaving Yale in 1911 with B.A., M.A. and Phi Beta Kappa key, he has applied his erratic literary ability to many matters. With the publication of Virgin Spain in 1926 his name as a Spanish authority was made, his interest in things Spanish determined. Since then he has lectured throughout South America, been received with great enthusiasm. Between times he has written books, essays, wrote a discerning preface to Plays of Moliere for the Modern Library...
...antis agreed on the probable result. Said the pros (mostly U. S. sugar-beet growers): sugar imports will drop, a young U. S. industry will thrive lustily. Said the antis (led by potent Manhattan bankers with investments in Cuba): in competition with duty-free Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Virgin Islands, Cuba will be ruined...
...prove it. Says she: his name was George Gould, a lanky Amherst undergraduate (he was 6 ft. 8 in.), later an eloquent divine of Worcester, Mass. Emily loved him, would not marry him against her father's wishes. After twelve years he took a wife; Emily died a virgin...
...unicorn, early writers said, was unconquerable by ordinary huntsman's methods. The best method was virgin-baiting. A maiden, preferably pretty, necessarily young, was undressed, turned loose in a field. The "vapours" of her virginity, explained zoologists, were what attracted the animal, dissipated his fighting spirit. Docilely the unicorn would approach the maiden, fondle her. Putting his head in her lap he would go to sleep. Then she would summon the huntsmen who would dispatch him. Also, claimed authorities, this was a valuable test 'for virginity. The unicorn, on discovering a hoax, would summarily run the lady through with...