A Side-Slip.
"Just before the war we were in danger of having the ugly and even abominable word 'aviator' fostered upon us. Just as that word seemed victorious, The Times suddenly announced that it had decided once and for all to use 'airman' instead, and there can be no doubt that the example there set, which was copied by journalists on other papers, secured the predominance of a good new English word over a deformed importation."—Times Literary Supplement.
"The volume contains some 500 portraits of New England aviators."—Same paper, same date, same page.
"QUARTER MILE CHAMPIONSHIP.—Record, Sgt. Smith (North Staffords), 5 2-5secs.
Wilkinson........ 1
Goddard.......... 2
Worsley.......... 3
An excellent win, Wilkinson putting in a wonderful spurt in the last 30 years."—Indian Paper.
From which we infer that he did not succeed in lowering Sergeant Smith's remarkable record.