Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the S. S. George Washington hove into New York Harbor three weeks ago, an old lady sat bundled in an invalid's chair on board and an ambulance was waiting on the pier. Because she was indisposed and because she was Mrs. Lily Anheuser Busch, 85-year-old widow of the late Brewer Adolphus Busch of St. Louis, the old lady had "the courtesy of the port." Comptroller-of-the-Port Arthur F. Forran had furnished her with an "expedite" permit, so that she might escape the tedium of waiting while inspectors inspected 34 pieces of luggage belonging...
...Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, rose from his seat on the Government bench to answer for the Government. He got no further...
Immediately bedlam was let loose. Angry Laborites chorused: "We want Baldwin! The Prime Minister! We want a responsible Minister! We want to know what the Government is doing and the President of the Board of Trade is not the Minister to give the answer! Baldwin! Baldwin!! BALDWIN...
...President of the Board of Trade, although a member of the Government, is not a Cabinet Minister...
...died in 1824, famed poet George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, bequeathed his desk to his valet. He himself had often hated this mahogany desk with its dozen secret drawers, its rickety legs which folded up so that it could be carried about like a trunk, its green-baize writing board, its little pigeonholes for ink and sand and quill. He had used it most in moments of depression; waking up in Italy after a night of debauch, he would sit before it for an hour or more, trying to trace out some verses of Don Juan, a poem which bored...