Word: flower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval air unit at Yale and Mr. Ingalls was that unit's bright particular flower. Over seas Mr. Ingalls was attached to an English squadron over which he, still in his 'teens, was soon given command. In two months duty in the Dunkirk sector he brought down six German planes and a balloon. He was the only U.S. naval flyer to become...
...touched at a tiny island south of Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native woman bear her child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance...
...motoring to Calhoun, Ga., with her grandson, Mrs. Felton, now 94, was flung against the back window of the car when it crashed another. She, the only one hurt, sat calmly while physicians worked on her face for two hours, staunching her wounds and putting in 20 stitches. *"Little Flower" in Italian...
...Royal Artillery Academy, What this means can only be appreciated by recalling that Spain's richest and most potent families have been accustomed to send at least one son to the Artillery Academy, that he might graduate into the Corps, which has been the privileged and aristocratic flower of the whole Army...
...endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite de la Motte) who, drooping like a flower, dies in his arms. First swordsman of France, D'Artagnan snatches from the dark tower by the river the betrayed king with his sad, muzzled face. Best shot: the four singing swashbucklers returning from...