Word: tarascon
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Tarascon, France, one Mile. Eugenie Dupont, alleged demimondaine, poured a litre of benzine over a parrot belonging to one of her rivals, and set fire to the bird. Amid a chorus of squawks and shrieks, the parrot flapped phoenix-like into the next room, igniting certain garments belonging to one M. La Rupelle. Doused with champagne, the fire was extinguished...
Villacoublay, French Government airdrome, saw the completion of a seaplane with a 500-h.p. motor capable, it is said, of flying for 34 hours, and thus fitted for the Paris-New York flight. Two war veterans will fly it: Francis Coli and Paul Tarascon. The latter acquired a wooden leg in pre-War flying and later shot down eleven German planes in battle...