Word: worked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...journalist may write none will be remembered permanently. Although I have had some success in journalism. I agree with the verdict my friend, John Morley,* rendered when he spoke of me as having had a squandered life." Twinkling, he added: "Any man is a damned fool who can work in bed and doesn...
Birthday. Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England; in London. Age: 85. To celebrate, he published a 4,000-line, four-part poem entitled The Testament of Beauty, his first large work in 39 years. Of it, the London Times said: ". . . The outpouring of the accumulated wisdom, experience, scholarship and poetic craftsmanship of one of the richest and mellowest spirits of our time...
False Lindbergh Book. Some foolish crook took the pains to write a book titled We Fly and, purporting to represent Col. Lindbergh, tried to sell it to Dorrance & Co., Philadelphia publishers, as his work. The attempted fraud was uncovered last week when George Palmer Putnam, New York publisher of Col. Lindbergh's We, asked Lindbergh if he had changed publishers. He declared that he had written no other book, had no intention of writing...
...once Dr. Arnstein began designing two military rigid airships of 6,500,000 cubic feet capacity.* His design won first prizes in two competitions held by the Navy's bureau of Aeronautics. Last year Goodyear-Zeppelin got its Navy contracts and started work...
...discuss, among other practical things, the usefulness of fulfilling the promise which Dr. Dornier made last week-that next March or April he will send his huge Do-X flying across the Atlantic to demonstrate that heavier-than-air machines can be made as practical as dirigibles for such work...