Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party who thinks the Admiral is wrong are correct to some extent. But the real truth of the matter is that one sailor may call another a "gob," but since the return of the Fleet from the wonderful cruise to Australia he is more liable to use the Australian word and pronunciation and call his shipmate "Silor" with the "i" pronounced "eye." This entire matter should hardly merit all this discussion as it is our knowledge that it is rarely necessary to call the sailor at all-just the sounding of "mess gear" or "pay call" on the bugle being...
...Admiralty announced that the inflexible rule forbidding the presence of a female on a British ship of war is to be relaxed when T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York set out on the Renown in January to dedicate the new Australian capital Canberra (TIME, Aug. 23). With the Royal Duchess will travel two ladies in waiting: Lady Cavan and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour. Upon their heads Marine Jonah Uden will practice his art as the first naval coiffeur...
...Vulgar insults and apologies of crime must be repressed not only when they explode criminally in the streets or public squares but also in journalistic haunts during the preparatory phase of crime. Moreover, these calumnies have the flat crooked form of the boomerang, and, like that Australian weapon, finish sooner or later by returning of their own force to the feet of those who hurled them...
...Majesty, the Queen of Rumania, is indeed a happy expression of that friendship and mutual consideration Existing between Rumania and the United States." ¶ An oil painting of the U. S. fleet entering Sydney harbor in 1925 was the gift brought by Sir Hugh Robert Denison, new Australian Commissioner to the U. S., when he was officially presented to President Coolidge. ¶ A four-inch dagger attached to a chain which may be worn around the neck, a weapon which Finns use to defend themselves against highway robbers, was the gift of Paavo Nurmi, greatest contemporary distance-runner...
German Shipping. No matter what may be the agreement of German navigation companies against foreign competition, there still remains lively rivalry among them for supremacy in German trade. Thus a fortnight ago the Hamburg-American Line refinanced itself as a $31,000,000 concern and absorbed the German-Australian and Kosmos (to South America) lines. Last spring it bought back three ships once sold to Averell Harriman (TIME, March 15). Its total tonnage is now 879,000. Last week North German Lloyd, apparently somnolescent since the War, increased its capitalization from $8,000,000 to its pre-War total...