Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King of Prussia. For three days the Kaiser refused to see the Baron. Finally, as von Maltzan was about to depart, he encountered the All Highest, clad in the field grey uniform of a marshal, in a corridor of the castle. Said the Kaiser, insult ingly: "You too belong to the rascals of the Foreign Office who cheated and lied to me throughout my reign." Replied Baron von Maltzan: "I beg pardon, but as far as I am concerned I do not deserve this reproach. May I respectfully remind you of the observations I made...
...flight of the airship Norge over the North Pole, it works up to a denunciation of the Italian skipper, Umberto Nobile, who piloted the ship. ". . . This hired skipper of a Norwegian ship owned by an American and myself shall not be permitted to usurp honors that do not belong to him. This record is written to prevent...
...yacht that used to belong to Germany's Kaiser stole out of Cherbourg harbor early one morning last week. Sliding up under the flank of an enormous U. S. Liner, she lay there waiting. When she put back towards the shore, several hundred retired members of the "A. E. F. observed that the onetime Kaiser's Yacht, now Cherbourg tender of the United States Liner, has been re-christened Welcome...
...Caledonia, Ohio, he used to belong to the "Chain Gang." This small village, close to Marion, Ohio, held also a band of boys calling themselves the "Stunners." The two gangs fought continually and thus became lifelong friends. Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" was obliged " to milk cows before school, feed cows and chop wood after school. And one day Dan Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore...
Advice is of a fragile nature in that its value increases in inverse proportion to the amount offered the advisee. During this intimate interval of three days there will be much good counsel spread abroad; the College will belong to the Freshmen for this fleeting period and it is to be hoped that afterwards the Freshmen will realize that in a certain manner they belong to the College and the traditions for which it stands. Each new student will listen to words of much wisdom; he will hear many speeches; it is possible that he will grow very tired...