Word: berengaria
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...life on a handsome income if he won. Scores of U. S. sporting folk are making the trip to Aintree this year. Billy Barton's Mr. Bruce led a party of Marylanders over, including Winants, Parkses, Symingtons. Sailing on a special Grand National trip on the 55. Berengaria were Mrs. Payne Whitney, who has two horses entered, Easter Hero and Maguelonne; A. Charles Schwartz, whose Darracq will run; Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, William H. Neilson Voss, Alfred 0. Corbin, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Joseph J. Larkin, Robert H. McCormick. Late betting quotations last week gave the following odds against favorite...
...last week there came from the Post Office Department an order withdrawing from the Berengaria, the Ansonia and the Andania, three Cunard Line vessels, all trans-Atlantic mail not specifically addressed to these three vessels. Immediately came protests. The Berengaria crosses the Atlantic in six days. Transfer of its mail to other, slower ships meant that such mail would take from three to six days longer in transit. The Post Office speedily reversed itself, rescinded the order, explained that it had been issued because it had been supposed that the Berengaria would be late in sailing. The rescinding order also...
...Paris last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29). As German anger mounted, imaginative correspondents cabled the suggestion that if Mr. Gilbert had remained in Berlin, last week, he would have been mobbed. As usual, however, the Agent General had left Germany before issuing his annual report; and last week the Cunarder Berengaria brought him safely to Manhattan...
Almost equally secretive was Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert, when cornered by ship-news reporters on the Berengaria. With hands clasped behind his back, Mr. Gilbert rose slightly on the balls of his feet and observed: "You must realize, gentlemen, that this is a good time for me to be silent...
Presently Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert drove from the Berengaria to the Plaza Hotel, and that night they dined with Dwight Whitney Morrow, onetime Morgan Partner, famed U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, rumored future father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. While this potent meal was in progress alert observers continued to digest the 170 pages...