Word: bungalows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great labor, but had a disconcerting habit of vanishing into its compartment without warning, before or after it was fired. Her crew of 28 men and four officers (the hardened Captain was 31 years old) lived in a chamber "about the size of the guest bedroom in a beach bungalow," in which the smell of sulfuric acid from the storage batteries mingled with smells from the electric cookstove. Through the out-of-date, foggy periscope of the L-9, the Captain could just make out "a rather blurred image of the nearby seascape." Biggest moments in the life of theLL...
...kinky-bearded, 64-year-old Thorvald Stauning, Premier of Denmark, after breaking a leg. The New York Times said he tripped over a "grassy knoll" near Loekken while he was showing friends a short cut across sand dunes to the main road from his seaside bungalow. The Associated Press said he fell aboard the yacht Nordsee. The United Press said he was holidaying at his bungalow atop a dune, got out of bed for a stroll in his nightshirt, stumbled in the dark...
...seems as much a British characteristic as muddling through. "I suppose," he wrote, "that you are going in search of the little wooden shoes." This referred to Lockhart's description of his separation from Amai, when his last glimpse had been of her little wooden shoes outside his bungalow. So, in 1935, in company with Lord & Lady Rosslyn, Lord Rendlesham, Lord & Lady Pembroke, Miss Dorothy Round and several others, he made his way slowly back to Amai...
...from Sandringham in his car, leaving word that the party was to go on in his absence. Even officials charged with responsibility for the safety of His Majesty did not know where he had gone, but they felt better after putting through a telephone call to a small rambling bungalow in the village of Rushmere. There Mrs. Simpson was in residence with her royal retainers, conveniently adjacent to Ipswich, the town in which the suit was filed as "Wd Simpson v. Simpson"-the "Wd" indicating that the petitioner is the wife...
...watch his boys play baseball on the sand, a game which ended with members of the New Brunswick Cabinet taking on an all-U. S. team. Driving home as the fog began to roll in from the bay, the President held a reception on the porch of his red bungalow for his fellow-islanders and visitors from the U. S. mainland a mile away. Gifted with the art of making men hopeful, he told them...