Word: aquitania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fridtjof Nansen, famed Norwegian polar explorer, winner of the Nobel Peace Award in 1922, and repeatedly Norwegian Delegate to the League of Nations, landed from the Aquitania last week, to lecture before the National Geographical Society and then return within a fortnight to Norway. Growled he: "The most valuable vehicle for scientific polar exploration is still the dog sled. Airplanes and dirigibles fly too swiftly...
John Pierpont Morgan sat tight in his suite aboard the Aquitania when she docked at Manhattan last week. After all other passengers had clumped down the gangplank, Mr. Morgan, who had successfully maintained an incognito all the way over, slipped ashore, was met by Partner Thomas W. Lamont, and descended in a freight elevator. For the past month he has been cruising in the Mediterranean aboard his yacht Corsair. Three days after he landed Mr. Morgan momentously fulfilled a duty which he has often promised to perform but which had heretofore escaped him. He began to serve on the Nassau...
Charles Michael Schwab (chairman of the board of Bethlehem Steel Corp.) arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania, having completed his 77th crossing of the Atlantic. After the usual "I am always an optimist in regard to American business," he said that he wears button shoes because he can get somebody to button them for him; that he always patronizes the same tailor because that tailor wears exactly his size clothing. Mr. Schwab will return to England in April to receive the Bessemer medal* from the British Industrial and Steel Institute. Will H. Hays, famed deus ex machina...
Realizing this, the Grand Central Galleries of New York held an exhibition early this summer aboard the Belgenland, showing landscapes, portraits, studies by contemporary U. S. artists (Murray Bewley, Ettore Caser, Gerrit Beneker, Lilian Westcott Hale, Hosvep Pushman, Paul King). Other ships have followed in the wake. The Aquitania became a nautical gallery by bringing to the U. S. Mrs. Dod Proctor's "Morning," the most notable painting in this year's Royal Academy show, for a short visit. The Hamburg-American liner New York exhibited last year the collection of the 15th Century canvasses which had hung...
...weak and too gloomy to say anything. He continued his hunger strike which had then reached its 24th day. Mr. Vanzetti said: "Well, I'm damned glad. I'd like to see my sister before I die." (His sister sailed last week for the U. S. on the Aquitania from Cherbourg.) Soon Mr. Vanzetti began to swallow liquids and, later, salads. Mr. Madeiros who had been eating heavily sat in a stupor...