Word: soloing
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...banked faultlessly. It coasted to earth, rose again; alighted again, rose a third time. A few eyes that strained towards its flight were sycophantic; many were worried, most were proud. For operating the plane was Governor John H. Trumbull, first governor, as far as is known, to do a solo airplane flight...
Jean Rodemich seems to have become a perenial fixture at the Metropolitan and this year he has improved only slightly. There is much less of his usual solo playing and he has found a fair supporting act in the Albertina Rach dancers...
...vicinity of the London Stock Exchange, prowled a pickpocket. Soon he espied an old gentleman, walking solo. "Easy money," he grinned and sidled up behind. Then, drawing up abreast, his nimble fingers felt for the oldster's watch. Instanter a bony fist hit him a resounding thwack on the jaw and he went reeling into the roadway...
Second Fiddles. The scrape of the second fiddle grew loud in the land as a score of the G. O. P.'s ablest performers suddenly learned that the big solo part might have to be reassigned. While the performers tuned up and decided what to play, their friends bowed to the audience to make preliminary introductions. Henry Ford bowed for Herbert C. Hoover. William Randolph Hearst bowed for Andrew W. Mellon. Frank 0. Lowden rushed home to Illinois from the Thousand Islands and repeated his favorite cryptogram about no man ever running away from the presidency. Vice President Dawes clenched...
...Harvard days he' played the banjo and sang songs. He still dances, solo, if notably elated. He loves candy. He does not drink or smoke. He collects art wholesale. He was once rabid on the subject of amateur photography...