Word: bein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best shot was a 676, made in 1911 on a record crossing from Cherbourg to Manhattan. Last week the Bremen, on her first day out from Cherbourg sped 687 miles for a new world's one-day record. As she nosed into Manhattan plump Captain Leopold Ziegen-bein snapped his stopwatch and beamingly announced that the Bremen's time from Cherbourg to Ambrose Light had been 4 days, 17 hours, 42 minutes. The Maure-tania's best record for the same course was 5 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes. On her second day out the Bremen jauntily...
...Smith's bein' a Catholic ain't goin' to hurt him none. What's goin' to hurt him is his being a Democrat...
...brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps that werena "on" tae their contents...
...Dublin. But "Tim" did not give "two hoots" what anybody thought and everybody knew it. And even if the opposition has come to be better known and less associated with assassinations, "sure and to goodness thair's no raison at all, at all, why Tim Healy should stop bein' Tim Healy...
Miss West is of an old Scotch-Irish family. Her mother was a musician and came of a family of musicians. Her father was Irish, from County Kerry - descended, I believe, from Sir Anthony Derry whom Hol- bein painted and who was a Privy Councillor under Henry VIII...