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...they paused while their plane was being refuelled before starting for Paris. They flew, over the dreamy provinces of France, toward a last great city. There, in the late afternoon, a huge crowd was waiting for them. Their plane drifted to the field at Le Bourget, a weary metal bird, singing a slow song. The wheels rolled over the ground quickly, then slowly. The wheels stopped, the propeller stopped its slow spinning, and the two men got out of their airplane. Both of them were smiling. "Costes!'' yelled the people in the crowd. "Lebrix . . . Lebrix. . . ." Then they...
...Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation and where, insouciantly clad in bathing suit, slippers and tennis hat he directed the unloading of his craft...
...made two appearances on the Manhattan stage. Twice, with strenuous and pathetic spasms, like a fish in the grass, it flopped. There was a fairly unanimous feeling that the play would have lasted longer had it been played with more cunning and dexterity. When it became known that Richard Bird and Vivian Tobin were to appear in a second revival, theatregoers anticipated something that might brighten the last long week in Lent...
...thing to bicker and trifle over. They had agreed to ram Senator Jones' bill, all points of which had been settled in committee, through to a vote at the first opportunity. The opportunity came when Wisconsin's Blaine long and earnestly opposed Senator Norbeck's migratory bird bill, providing Federal bird sanctuaries to be paid for by Federal hunting licenses at $1 each. So long, so earnestly did Senator Elaine and one or two others talk, that it became apparent that migratory birds were being filibustered out of sanctuary. So the bird bill was deposed...
...formidable: Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Patrick Edward Crowley for the New York Central; Charles Donnelly for the Northern Pacific; Laurence Aloysius Downs for the Illinois Central; Carl Raymond Gray for the Union Pacific; Edward Jones Pearson for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Bird M. Robinson for the American Short Lines Association...