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...dawn waxed into day the new $100,000 biplane Hercules taxied from a hangar amid the roar of its three Jupiter engines. "Flying bores me," said Sir Samuel to e newsgatherer, "it is all the same after the first five minutes. I usually read or go to sleep...
...dusk descended the Hercules coasted down through a light mist at Marseille, just beyond the Western extremity of the French Riviera, Next day, amid perfect weather, they flew East and South along the entire French and Italian Riviera to Naples-averaging 93½ miles an hour. As morning dawned again the Hercules bellowed up through a driving rain to the clear skies above and flew 350 miles over sea to the British Island of Malta...
When ticket No. 17,229 fell from the ticket globe no stir was occasioned; but an instant later, amid a deadly hush, the $2,500,000 Grand Prize disc was seen to have rattled down...
...Cleveland Times, which routed out an aged invalid lady, trundled her around the city in a motor car eagerly lent and frequently mentioned in the subsequent sob-story, named shops and hotels which elaborately displayed their wares and hospitality to her and the Times reporter, and trundled her home amid a short-hand account of her boundless gratitude to all the super-generous publicists concerned? What did they think of the St. Paul Pioneer Press which published a full-page self-advertisement to the effect that it was entirely responsible for the visit of Santy Claus to St. Paul this...
...opinion? Not that busy organizer His Eminence George Cardinal Mundelein, no giant among dialecticians. Not the genial, benevolent Cardinal Hayes. Most certainly not His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, preoccupied as he is with the affairs of Boston. Finally not His Eminence Denis Cardinal Dougherty, pious, harmoniously resident amid the calm of Philadelphia. None of the four U. S. cardinals ranks with the late James Cardinal Gibbons in ability to drive a persuasive quill. Does Rome look to him who sits on the seat of Cardinal Gibbons? It is His Grace the Archbishop of Baltimore, Michael Curley, a Roosevelt...