Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enemy In Sight!" In July 1914, just eight days before the World War broke, George V reviewed 228 war boats off Spithead in the greatest steam-past of his reign. Last week he scanned 160 war boats, including the Australian flagship, H. M. A. S. Australia which recently brought H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester home from his tour Down Under (TIME, April 8). Last week Gloucester was marooned on the Australia while the King's other three sons were with His Majesty on the brass-funneled Victorian royal yacht Victoria and Albert. From her forepeak flew...
...ensnared him Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared him!" IX After his lieges, in all his lands, Had laid their hands between his hands And his ships thundered service and devotion, The tide wave, ranging the planet, spoke On all our foreshores as it broke: "Know now what man I gave you-I, the ocean...
...only trouble was that Mr. Hales offered his Trophy to Italy's transatlantic recordholder, Rex, before he was ready to deliver it. The Italian Line naturally accepted it and then last month, France's Normandie broke the Rex's record. But it was Harold Hales's cup and, as umpire, he could make the rules. Rule No. 1: The Trophy shall be held by each winner for at least three months...
...bucktoothed, towheaded 11-year-old named Mary Hoerger won the springboard diving championship. Powerful Lenore Right of Homestead, Pa., fastest woman swimmer in the U. S.. broke two world records (mile and 880-yd. freestyle). Georgia Coleman, Olympic springboard diving champion in 1932, was on the sidelines, judging, as was the girl who swam across the English Channel in 1926, Gertrude Ederle. To take the place...
...trophies of a hunt. Always contrasting feverish urban affectations with the contented days and rich histories of small Southern and Western towns, he finds humor, common sense and human decency characteristic of the provincials. His portraits of them would carry more conviction if occasionally human sweat and hot temper broke the serenity of his air-conditioned South...