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...Philippine skirmishes of the Spanish-American war. Not until 1912 was the Princess again heard from prominently. In that year she flew (as passenger) across the English Channel, the first woman to do so, and possibly in that year and on that flight she felt ambition's bite to pioneer among women in aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A Lost Princess | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Lima, Peru, a man, drunk & sleepy, fumbled at the latch of an enclosure at the zoo. He wanted to go to sleep. So did a camel in the enclosure, and killed the man. No one knew the man's name. (Camels bite as well as kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Camel v. Man | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...Dacey came but the whiskey was about gone. Let them all go up to the Lihme apartment then, suggested Mr. Healy. Perhaps they could find a bite to eat and settle the matter as became three Irish gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vandals | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...Dakota trout must be so elated over the President's coming to their state that they joined in the welcoming procession." Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, as piscator, said of President Coolidge's method of catching trout with angleworms in South Dakota: "Any trout that would bite on a worm is degenerate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Miscellaneous Mentions: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the lbis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces--but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum, for how can one little, Tiger, however fierce he may be, make a menngerie all by himself? Can a feather go off in a corner and flock alone by itself? But he is a very strong Tiger and very, very fierce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appearance of "Tiger" in 1882 Made Lampy Quake in His Roomy Boots--Princeton Periodical Early Showed Promise | 6/8/1927 | See Source »

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