Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father had just gone to Congress from Minnesota. The Wright Brothers were making sensational flights, staying in the air as long as 1 hr., 31 min., 25 4/5 sec. But not until the next year was Louis Blériot to astound the world by flying across the English Channel. If young Lindbergh had a hero the year Taft campaigned it was doubtless President Roosevelt, with whose son, Quentin, he used to play in the White House grounds. Legend says that "Cheese" Lindbergh was one of the boyish gang that inspired Quentin to rough-ride his pony into and through...
...Montgomery Ward & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. both asked for short wave channels to transact business between their branches over the country. Anderson, Clayton & Co., potent cotton brokers, asked for a channel between their Houston and Manhattan offices...
After leaving London with the minimum retinue of four aides, Their Royal Highnesses proceeded by ordinary channel steamer to Calais, by ordinary sleeping car across France to Marseilles, and thence, by ordinary express steamer to Alexandria, chief port of Egypt...
...Bois du Boulogne, was the despair of French equestriennes. Meissonier painted her portrait. Ludovic Halevy portrayed her in L'Abbe Constantin, the novel which won him a seat among the "40 Immortals" of the French Academy. While Mr. Mackay remained in the U. S., she crossed the Channel to London, repeated her triumphs. Her mansion on Carlton House Terrace was decorated with Gobelin tapestries, other valuable objets d'art. Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was a constant, admiring visitor. She went to Moscow, where Tsar Alexander III pronounced her the most beautifully dressed woman at his coronation...
...Shinnecock Hills, L. I., Stewart Sheftal, 17, learned his golf. He has since been an expatriate, living in Paris. Last week he crossed the English Channel, went to Formby, England, defeated Archibald Dobbie, Scotch lad, for the British boys' open championship, 6 and 5. His was the eighth victorious U. S. invasion of notable British golf tournaments...