Word: times
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profits greatly by the loans which Michael persuades her to accept. Striving toward greater respectability than the law allows them, the two are married, thus laying themselves open to prosecution for bigamy. Of course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary decide to conceal the truth of the incident from the courts for their son's sake. A decade later, when...
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Last fortnight Duncan Phillips published for the first time a magazine named Art and Understanding. It is hereafter to appear twice a year. Called "A Phillips Publication," and written for the most part by the publisher himself, its illustrations are from canvases in the Phillips Gallery. There are also reprinted articles by John Galsworthy and Virgil Barker. In the opening editorial Collector Phillips gives his credo: "There is nothing esoteric and beyond the comprehension of the average man in that incessant spiritual activity, almost as old as the human species, which we call art. . . . The machine age promises to provide...
Again Costes. Round and round a giant's circle, droning on through the Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné ("Doudou") Costes and his companion Paul Codos, it made its way over flat-roofed, smelly Marseilles, to time-broken Avignon, to musty Narbonne, and then over the same route again. For 52 hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort...
This flight perhaps made Costes flyer-of-the-year. Three months ago he set another world-record, for airplane distance, with Maurice Bellonte from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, an airline of 4,910 miles made in the same ship with a more powerful motor (TIME...