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...creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident of a 24-hour glide with a passenger...
...real cure for America's illness would appear to be automatically forthcoming. Although the old morality is rather a bore, the accessible sins are no less monotonous. In the absence of a rip-roaring wrong which can be whole-beartedly cultivated, the youthful rebels must seek some respectable course of conduct...
...contorted face of the one-armed man was seen to be made of flour sacking. Into the belly of the effigy a pin was stuck supporting a sheet of paper with the words: "Dr. Elwood Mead" [U. S. Commissioner of Reclamation]. The other horrible object bore the legend: "Dr. Hubert Work [U. S. Secretary of the Interior]. For breaking his word and depriving a project of water...
LULU BELLE?A Negress (light coffee) who made love so well that a French nobleman bore her off across the seas to Paris...
...Bernstein himself conducted a party of pressmen and notables on the night of the formal opening. He, a Manhattan Jew whose fine necktie bore witness to his shrewdness, explained that, in order to cater to that sense of Asiatic luxury which is "proper to every good Jew," he had built the hotel around a bath. The Christians who objected to sharing their public quarters with Jews had no such splendid bath as this-no, nor had Augustus Caesar, nor has the most pompous sybarite in Hollywood. The notables, the pressmen inspected the hotel-a steel and concrete Joseph...