Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silently, swiftly, the meticulously spaced parade of men-o'-war bore by. The sounds that came across the steel-grey waters to the President's ear were few and sharp: brass bands playing one chorus of the national anthem, the six-pounders saluting 21 times, like doors banging in a distant, empty house. A thousand yards astern of the carriers footed seven Treaty cruisers of the Scouting Force, then a brood of 21 destroyers. Two thousand yards behind them glided the cruisers and destroyers of the Battle Force, followed by nine of the nation's 15 capital...
...cold, unimaginative Victoria Eugenie, Princess of Battenberg, brought her husband woe too. She was never really popular among Spaniards. She brought the King the dread haemophilia (easy bleeding) of her house, bore him a haemophilia heir, a second son who was a deaf mute, finally two whole boys, two fine girls capable of passing on their mother's haemophilia...
...prosecution. Not one word has been uttered in even a feeble defense of me. And it must be obvious that there also is my side of the story. "When it is told in court, my judgment may be discredited, but certainly my honesty will be vindicated." The cutter bore the Insulls to Fort Hancock on the tip of Sandy Hook. They were motored under guard to Princeton Junction, N. J. and by 10 a. m. were aboard a westbound Pennsylvania train. Next day in Chicago, after being fingerprinted and suffering a slight heart attack, the Elder Insull was arraigned...
...price did not stop shrinking until it hit 3? per lb. early last year. Chief reason for the plan's failure was not Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover's inveighing against it but lack of cooperation by Dutch planters in the East Indies. The harder the British bore down on production, the faster the Dutch planted...
...Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water on which "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, her illiterate grandfather...