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...lion on the column smiled a sophisticated Venetian smile." For Eric, magnificent blond, had just glided his plane on to the Grand Canal, and turned amorous attention to his passenger. $37,500 was the fare she had paid him to transport her, Catherine, decadent American college girl, from the Eiffel Tower to Java, and Philip, her (chief) lover. Meanwhile Eric served very nicely as more than pilot. It became necessary to draw the curtains of the airship, but the Italian populace continued to applaud hilariously, their gondolas created a serious traffic jam, and "the horses on St. Mark...
...greet jovial Red Beard Hartmann when he drove in last week. For the rest, Tout Paris is ever ready to join in good-humored shouts at a spectacle so nice as a parade of 40 old men and 40 old nags up the Champs Elysees and on to the Eiffel Tower...
...with fragile caravels of discovery opened new routes on unknown seas," shook hands with Col. Lindbergh on his birthday. With the above quotation President Horacio Vasquez likened the visitor to a new Columbus. Among the exhibits prepared for his reception were effigies of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower two stories high with a miniature airplane swung between them. U. S. Minister Evan E. Young entertained the visitor with a chocolate cake sprouting 26 candles...
Previous recipients: Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, Glen H. Curtiss, Gustave Eiffel (for research on the properties of the air in respect to flight...
...trip. ... In each [city] I found much to admire and many things of profound interest. . . . Summing up my impressions, I am bound to say that New York City contrasts more than favorably with the cities I have seen over here." ¶ Shouted in another breath: "So long everybody. The Eiffel Tower is a fine eyeful, but I'll be mighty glad to get a look at the lady out on Bedloe's Island!" . . . ¶ Aboard the S. S. Ile de France, the indefatigable Mayor sent radio-grams by the dozen. A specimen message (to General Gouraud, military governor...