Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week to the Irishman whose toast is drunk daily in 10,000,000 cups of tea. There were whistles, cheers, salutes. Six hundred passengers lined the rails of the Leviathan. One Barren Collier, a Special Deputy Police** Commissioner, was present with a yacht to take Sir Thomas up the bay. The Police Band was present? to play Home Again and Hail to the Chief and The Gang's All Here. And Captain Herbert Hartley, master of the Leviathan, ordered three long blasts on the potent steam whistle as the yacht started up the harbor...
Field Marshal. A tall bay, four years ago grand champion of the Olympia, owned by O. W. Lehmann. Successful campaigner of uncountable shows, Field Marshal returned to the ring this spring at the South Shore Country Club, Chicago, where he was victorious, though later beaten at Brockton, Mass. Proud as a falcon and dauntless still, his defeat by Knight Commander shadows the end of his show days...
Route.-Taking the direct route from Friedrichchafen, the big ship passed over the French Midi, over Bordeaux, along the Spanish coast of the Bay of Biscay, and out to the Azores Islands. Thence she was to have flown to Bermuda and thence west-by-south to Lakehurst. A "local tornado" encountered an hour west of the Azores forced her to slow down to 25 m. p. h., however, and when the storm had passed, she veered northwest direct for Manhattan, a missing engine tuned in again to help hit up her pace...
...mines are situated in the district of Katanga, in the Belgian Congo, 1,700 miles from a sea port. Shipments are made via the Benguella Railway and Lobito Bay to Europe. Already a concentrator and electrolytic refinery and a battery of coke-ovens have been provided to work the ores extracted; while a hydro-electric plant and a leaching plant are shortly to be added...
...headstone. A publisher sent him a blank check so that he could fix his own price for a book of reminiscences ; he tore up the check. In the days when Edward VII was a rollicking Prince of Wales, Knollys was often the butt of practical jokes. "Bay" Middleton, famed sportsman, had a penchant for catching a coat by the tails and ripping it to the neck. One night, he thus accommodated Knollys, who was unconcerned. "I took the precaution, Sir,'' said he, "of wearing one of your coats...