Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarrel concerned Fascist policy and was between two members of the fire-eating wing of Fascismo, (Emilio Settimelli and Mario Carli, editors of the Impero [Power], sometimes described as an official Fascist journal) and the two members of the weaker-kneed group, Curzio Suckert and Telesio Interlandi, (editors of the Tevere [Stable], a convenient backyard for Dictator Mussolini's mental gambits...
Governor John H. Trumbull, of Connecticut, required two planes to fly from his home in Plainville, Conn., to New York City. The first damaged a wing but not the occupants in landing; the second flew him safely to Mitchel Field, one of Manhattan's airport approximates...
...best chapters tell of the author's early barnstorming adventures. Over Billings, Mont., with a pilot named Lynch, he attempted to draw a crowd by doing some wing-walking, throwing overboard a dummy, go that spectators would think Wing-Walker Lindbergh had fallen to his death. "We returned to our field and waited expectantly for the curious ones to come 'rushing out for information, but two hours later, when a few Montanans did arrive, they told us about one of the other attractions?a fellow who dived from an airplane into the Yellowstone River which was about three feet deep...
...prison? Well, then, he would talk. He would give names, dates, conversations. He would disclose the hiding place of documentary evidence proving his statements. It took a lot more than 19 months to fade the signature off a canceled check. When he was through they would "need a new wing for the prison...
...Buckingham Palace whirled the twice royal cavalcade. Portly Ahmed Fuad was soon shown into a suite in what is technically known as "Wing V." There the Egyptian Great Chamberlain marshalled Ahmed Fuad's numerous attendants?not the least of these being a chemist to test his food, a taster to sample it, and two of George V's physicians skilled in antidotes...