Word: aquitania
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...habit in controversy, said nothing. He was waiting, his office announced last week, for the return from Europe of Charles Evans Hughes who advises him on trade relations with the Russian Soviets. Despite this announcement, President Pratt sailed with his family on the Aquitania last week for a holiday on a grouse moor which he has rented in Scotland...
Curls of steam and greasy smells rose, one morning last week, around a locomotive which waited in London, ready to whisk a trainload of tourists off to Southampton and the Cunarder Aquitania. Pensive, the engineer spat from his cab upon the platform. "D'ye twig wha's aboord?" he said to the fireman, "Mon, I wud sooner drive Mac any day than the King himsel...
Lizards. Last week the Aquitania docked in Manhattan with two of the most gruesome immigrants in history aboard. They were giant carnivorous lizards, over nine feet long, from the Island of Komodo, Dutch East Indies, descendants of the dinosaurs, the the probable originals of the dragon on China's flag. Out of their mouths shot forked tongues of scarlet, like flames. When angered, they hissed like escaped steam. Their bodies, thick as a brawny man's, were studded with scales like nail heads. Down their backs ran a jagged ridge of tough "armor plate." First of their kind...
Last month two gentlemen in natty dinner clothes were seen to scuttle out of the Pulitzer Building in Park Row, Manhattan. An automobile whisked them to the Battery, where they plumped into a Coast Guard Patrol cutter and vanished down murky New York Harbor chasing the fleet S. S. Aquitania, eastbound. . . . Last week, tired, grimy, grinning, the same two men returned to the Pulitzer Building in brown canvas flying suits, crouching in automobiles outridden by staccato police motorcycles...
Still in his plus fours, Jones thanked the officers of the club who let him hold in his hands for a moment the cup on whose silver sides his name will be inscribed. Then he caught a midnight train for Southampton, boarded the Aquitania...