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...Arizona as in one spot in South Dakota. I say "one spot," advisedly, because when I was in the Black Hills at Lead, I can assure you the existence of a mythical line at an elevation of 2.500 feet, did not stop the inhabitants from screening the doors and windows. I will admit the general paucity of mosquitoes, but that was due, not to the elevation, but to the great lack of stagnant water in which they could breed. Unless the President bars all horses, except the "famed" electric horse, from the State Lodge, he would be wise...
...Lieutenant Balchen piloted the America into the waves, as gently as possible. The impact hurled Commander Byrd, watching at his cabin window, into the sea. He saw Lieutenant Noville climbing out of another window, dazed and unable to hear his shouts. He swam to the cockpit, helped Lieutenant Balchen extricate himself from the wreckage. Everyone yelled for Bert Acosta-he was not in the cabin-but soon he appeared out of the dark waves. Two days later, a Paris surgeon discovered that Mr. Acosta had a fractured collarbone, the only serious injury of the crash...
...Française is near the Station St. Lazare, many an arriving tourist thought that revolution had broken out in France. At last police reserves separated the combatants-though not until some 20 civilians and 10 policemen had received major bruises. All the while Editor Daudet stood at the window of his office, cheering on the "Camelots" hurling such epithets as "Pig-men! Assassins! Red-Snouters! Bandits! Jelly-Bellies!" at the Communists...
...smashed a jeweler's plate glass window with a heavy hammer. Instantly a crowd of hundreds assembled, with a great uproar of shouting, thinking it was the deed of an anarchist. I ran away, to avoid violence. But the jeweler, a fleet-footed young man, ran after me and overtook me. I assumed that he meant to arrest me. But instead, he pressed into my hand a list of his other shops, saying, 'Go and do the same to all of them! It will be a splendid free advertisement...
...unfair for our flyers to get all the glory while those poor Frenchmen [Captains Nungesser & Coli] are dead," said Joseph Lewis, 39, Negro, as he stood poised on a window sill of his fifth-floor apartment in Manhattan. Then he jumped, died on the pavement below. Mr. Lewis' sister said that he had been melancholy for several weeks...