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...with a feeling akin to sadness that the same readers now grown to manhood, greet the announcement that the Women's Christian Temperance Union has taken these self-same rimes and jingles and converted them into Prohibition propaganda. But the old order changeth and Progress is an exemplary ambition. Perhaps Mother Goose willingly aids and abets the Noble Experiment. Forsaking her eternal kingdom she will be seen in the night air stealthily aeroplaning--of course her broomstick is antiquated--hither and yon disseminating the evils of drink. Yes, the Eighteenth Amendment is an honorable thing and even Mother Goose should...
...from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Tresco, one of the Scilly islands, 25 mi. off Cornwall, England. Theirs was the fifth heavier-than-air crossing this year, the 26th in history. They spent the night in that Arthurian Land of Lyonnesse, then continued to Croyden, their real destination. First to greet them there was Charles A. Levine, passenger on the Columbia when Clarence Chamberlin flew her across the ocean (TIME, June 13, 1927). Mr. Levine's comment: "[Boyd and Connor] took an awful chance...
...Again, Hawks. By moonlight, Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks's red-&-white Travel Air Texaco 13 whizzed off the runway of Glendale Airport, Los Angeles, last week, hurdled the San Bernardino mountains, shot across the Mojave Desert to greet the rising sun, roared into Albuquerque in 3 hr. 26 min. The speed indicator clung close to 250 m.p.h. as the low-winged bullet tore eastward to Wichita. Next came a mid-afternoon stop at Indianapolis and then, three hours later, Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream L. I.-a new transcontinental record...
...Began to greet their colleague, the onetime British Ambassador to the U. S. by his new title, announced in the Official Gazette last week: "Baron Howard of Penrith and of Gowbarrow in the County of Cumberland...
...Washington as President, was first occupant of the White House. When Thomas Jefferson was elected to succeed him, Adams was so enraged that he refused to be present at Jefferson's inauguration. (Only other such case: son John Quincy Adams, fifth U. S. President, would not stay to greet incoming President Andrew Jackson.) Quick-tempered, ambitious, vain, John Adams was never personally popular. Short and fat, he was nicknamed "His Rotundity" by Washington wits...