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Mingle might just as well have called him in the first place, instead of bothering me. BLAYNE. He's a nervous little chap. What has he got, this time? ANTHONY. 'Can't quite say. A very bad tummy and a blue funk so far. He asked me at once if it was cholera, and I told him not to be a fool. That soothed him. CURTISS. Poor devil! The funk does half the business in a man of that build.
On the last day Delagrange narrowly escaped serious accident through the bursting of his propeller while in the air, Curtiss made a new speed record by travelling at the rate of over 50 miles an hour, and Latham, rising to 500 feet, won the altitude prize.
Though most of the men of attainment in science have continued in University positions, Robert S. Woodward, 72e, President of the Carnegie Institution, Charles F. Brush, '69e, the inventor of the arc light, Otto Klotz, '72e, Director of the Dominion of Canada Observatory at Ottawa, William W. Campbell, '86e, Director of the Lick Observatory, and Heber D. Curtiss, '92, at the same observatory, may be mentioned as exceptions.
DOONE. Curious thing how some women carry a Fate with them. There was a Mrs. Deegie in the Central Provinces whose men invariably fell away and got married. It became a regular proverb with us when I was down there. I remember three men desperately devoted to her, and they all, one after another, took wives. CURTISS. That's odd. Now I should have thought that Mrs.
Rob seized the bit of looking glass and held the blotter to it. "Just as I thought," he exclaimed a minute later, with a cry of triumph. "It's Jack Curtiss' writing, though he has tried to disguise it, and they've got Joe hidden somewhere. Look here, they want $200 for his return."
The seaplane is the chief contribution of Glenn Hammond Curtiss to aviation, and the Navy Curtiss Number Four, which made the first transatlantic flight in history, was designed by him. The spirit of cooperation, expressed in pooling ideas and fame, which the Wright brothers exemplified, is seen again in the association of Curtiss with the navy during the war.
Well, have you made the plans for today? They went into the house to breakfast. She watched him helping himself to the scarlet and green salad. 'Mrs Curtiss, she said, in rather reedy tone, 'has been very motherly to me this morning; oh, very motherly! Siegmund, who was in a warm, gay mood, shrank up. 'What, has she been saying something about last night? he asked.
"It's a case I'm concerned in," the other answered. "I tell you who knows about him," said the General. "Harry Curtiss. William E. Davenant has done law business for Price." "Is that so?" said Montague. "Then probably I shall meet Harry." "I can tell you a better person yet," said the other, after a moment's thought. "Ask your friend Mrs. Alden; she knows Price intimately, I believe."
Winthrop, John., <i>History of New England</i>. Edited by James Savage. Boston, 1825. Gardiner, Curtiss C. "Papers and Biography of Lion Gardiner," in <i>Lion Gardiner and his Descendants</i>. A. Whipple. St. Louis, 1890. Cleveland, 1897. Newton, Arthur Percival. <i>The Colonizing Activities of the English Puritans</i>. Yale University Press. New Haven, 1914.
Vivie Patton, whose husband had complained of the expensiveness of her costumes, and requested her to wear simpler dresses. "Very well," she said, "I will get a lot of simple dresses immediately." Alice spent one evening at home, and she took her cousin into her confidence. "I've an idea, Allan, that Harry Curtiss is going to ask me to marry him. I thought it was right to tell you about it."
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