Word: solo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This melodrama about a girl of the British peerage who marries a peer murderer and runs away from him with a peer explorer is told partly in pictures but principally in words English, French, Hindu, Indian, Chinese. It is played by an orchestra, on reeds, on drums and a solo saxophone. It shows settings of the Khyber Pass, London, San Francisco, the Sudanese desert. It records the whirr of airplane propellers and another noise which sounds a good deal the same but is only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines...
Elinor Smith, 17, world's female endurance flight champion, lying abed recuperating from 26 hours in air (see p. 53), announced that her next feat would be a solo flight from New York to Rome. Said Mrs. Agnes Smith, her mother: "Try and stop...
...best she could (her stabilizer went out of order) and settled down to read Tom Sawyer while soaring and soaring 600 ft. above the airport. She stayed there all afternoon, all night, all the next morning, part of the next afternoon. When she alighted she had established a new solo endurance flight record for women: 26 hrs., 21 min. 32 sec.-4½ hrs. more than the previous record (Louise McPhetridge Thaden of California). Miss Smith told about being airsick: "I ate an orange but it wouldn't stay put. . . . Then I tried a tomato...
...Volpone. A rotational system among the actors will assure each circuit city of the best Guild talent.* No matter what players tread the Guild's stage, stardom is avoided. Names are not posted in lights outside the theatre or in large type in the programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving and sharing alike except as to salary. The result of these policies, maintained by hard work and patience, has been the discovery...
...regulations stiffening the requirements for Government licenses, which now stand as follows: For Private License. On the ground, 5 hrs. study of air commerce regulations, 10 hrs. of aviation engine study, 10 hrs. of airplane study (rigging, maintenance, repair). In the air, 10 hrs. dual instruction, 8 hrs. solo flying. For Limited Commercial License. On the ground, 15 hrs. study of engines, 15 hrs. of planes, 15 hrs. aerial navigation and meteorology. In the air, 50 hrs. flying time, of which 15 to 25 hrs. may be with instruction. For Transport License. On the ground, 25 hrs. of engine study...