Word: descending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Francis Douglas and three companions plunged to death while returning from the first ascent ever made to the "hump" (1865). Prince Chichibu, perhaps superstitious, resolved not to return as did Lord Francis Douglas. Daring, the Prince proceeded straight over the hump (the Italo-Swiss frontier) and prepared to descend by the far more dangerous Italian route, necessitating straight drops by means of Alpine ropes of several hundred feet...
...took time to climb aloft to his usual travel level. The big plane sped down the low Dutch coast. Some 80 miles past the Belgian border . . . Plud! ... a wild duck, hypnotized with fright, flew straight into a propeller of the roaring frame crossing its path. The liner had to descend. A message flashed to London brought a new propeller in a few hours by air. The passengers re-embarked and were treated to the first night flight ever made by an Imperial Airways ship, landing at their destination none the worse for the accident. Soon Imperial Airways will have regular...
...Orleans, in hot August, did not walk to its work or play. The carmen adopted a resolution of thanks to Editor Ballard for "injecting" himself into their affairs. It was most unusual for a 20th century editor, in a big city, to do such a thing-to descend from his rostrum, divested of the editorial "we" and its ulterior formality. Most big-city editors would have "played" the streetcar strike to sell their papers, or simply viewed it in irritated detachment with no thought but that every one concerned must "stew in his own juice." The editors...
...them still coasting northeast over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles. Their nearest competitor was the U. S. Army...
...were to devise a feminine form of pipe to replace the grandmotherly corncob, one might safely wager that it would find universal favor with the gentler sex. And a charming smoking jacket should clinch the victory. If pioneer wives were willing to smoke corncobs an the chimney, surely their descend-ants can not be averse to a more civilized form of fumigation. Since the cigarette unsupported is achieving womanly progress, one can expect an artistic pipe to make the conquest heartily complete...