Word: arkfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, on one of those days when international alarms flew thick & fast, the First Lord had occasion to speak extemporaneously. The First Lord was spending a social evening on His Majesty's aircraft carrier Ark Royal, anchored off Portsmouth. There was nothing unusual about the gathering except that there were present fewer officers than usual, more empty seats. Chief entertainment was a new British cinema, Trouble Is Brewing. The picture over, Lord Stanhope stepped to a platform in front of a curtain on which was painted a likeness of Dopey, Dwarf No. 7 in Walt Disney...
...Private and confidential memo to editor. We are asked by the Admiralty to issue the following 'D' notice: In the national interests the speech of Lord Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Ark Royal tonight should not be published...
...Brinkley established another hospital in Little Rock, Ark. Every Monday in his private plane he flies to Little Rock from Del Rio, and every Thursday he flies home again. At the airport pretty Mrs. Brinkley meets him in their 16-cylinder scarlet Cadillac, which looks like a fire engine and has "Dr. Brinkley" printed on the body. She drives him to their $100,000 red, white and blue estate called "Palm Drive in Hudson Gardens," in the suburbs of Del Rio. On the estate's three iron gates, which are guarded by two huskies and three biting geese...
...professional gambling in his Monongahela Club (political headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...
...five books of the Old Testament, is God's covenant with Moses and his people. The countless minute provisions of the Law, and the later commentaries which Jews say "put fences" around it, gave Jewry a complete guide to religious, social, physical behavior. Thus the Torah, in its ark or shrine, is the focal point in the most solemn synagogue services...