Word: flew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chambre- ¶Was the scene of a typically exuberant riot amid which books and inkwells flew when Deputy Charles Hueber from Alsace-Lorraine attempted to speak for the first time in two years in the only language he can speak, and was howled down by the Communists because his "Alsatian" sounds like "German...
...Samaritans. Pilots from the British air bases in Transjordania loaded their planes last week with dates and other comestibles which would not be injured by dropping from a height. Soaring into the zenith they flew up and down the trans-desert motor route between Beirut and Bagdad. Tourists, marooned for almost a week by floods which bogged their motor cars and washed out the railways, gazed thankfully skyward as the British air Samaritans flung man-made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would...
...stunned. My fiery demeanor became compassionate. Gently I lifted her to the windowsill. Soon she regained consciousness; flew away, wobbly...
...would leave town at once as he had entered it, by airplane. He was on his way from Los Angeles to Mitchell Field, N. Y., and could not delay longer, he said. Doctors expostulated, bystanders said, "Teh, tch!" The elderly gentleman paid no attention, clambered into his plane, flew to Mitchell Field...
Born. To Mrs. Marie Ames Byrd, of Winchester, Va., and Boston, a daughter. Mrs. Byrd is the wife of Lieut. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, U. S. N., who flew to the North Pole and back from Spitzbergen last spring. Lieutenant Byrd's brother, Harry F., is Governor of Virginia...