Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walk along the ground with a breeze at your back, approach a fence, bend your knees, spring lightly into the air when you feel the tug of the balloon. You will sail over the fence so easily and land so gently that you will be surprised. Barns and trees can be surmounted with more vigorous leaps, usually requiring a light second push-up with the tip of the toe on the barn's roof or on the tree's outlying branches...
...Territory, remembering her Minnesota village, she felt this loneliness closing around her. The sky and the green floor made no familiar prisoning niche. Their infinity disregarded her. Nothing she did could influence or change them. She watched her son growing up, her husband fighting against the earth. More immigrants sail their prairie schooners westward, and Beret prays, "Almighty God, show mercy now to the children of men. Let not these folks be altogether lost in this trackless wilderness." For herself, this is an unanswered prayer. Her children, her husband, make the prairie theirs; but Beret is lost in a trackless...
Lieutenant Noville, flight engineer of the America, left Cleveland at 16 to join the Navy and sail around the world. Bluejackets remember that it was not long before he became a mighty oarsman, football player, broad-jumping champion of the Navy. After helping to occupy Vera Cruz in 1912, he learned to fly, was assigned to the spectacular Esquadrille Candinana on the Italian front during the World War. He has long been a friend of Commander Byrd, who put him in charge of the Spitzbergen base during the North Pole flight...
...went to the Royal Institute at Milan to study to be an engineer and "an expert businessman." One day, he heard that a Frenchman, Leon Delagrange, had made a six-minute airplane flight.* His dreams suddenly took shape-he would build ships of the air; he would learn to sail them...
...plays opened in Manhattan last week. This is the dull season, when actors appear in Chautauqua, visit friends at the seashore, toil in stock companies, or sail for Europe. But the week was not without theatrical news of interest...