Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revealed last week by L'Illustration, famed Parisian review, was a hitherto suppressed and most significant fact: on New Year's Day, 1915, His Royal & Imperial Highness, Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany and of Prussia, sent a German captain and buglers, bearing a flag of truce, across "no man's land" to the headquarters of French General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail...
Little known is the fact that Poet-Flyer Gabriel d'Annunzio's son, Captain Ugo V. d'Annunzio, has been in the U. S. for several years representing the Isotta-Fraschini Motors, Inc. Last week Captain d'Annunzio became a director of the American Aeronautical Corp., newly organized to manufacture Italian Savoia seaplanes and flying boats in this country...
...Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins with his airplane pilot Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson, last week, discovered that Graham Land is separate from the Antarctic continent. Between them is an ice-covered strait. Graham Land itself seems to be fringed with an archipelago. Between a great plateau to its north and a double mountain chain to its south is a broad expanse of white, which may indicate a valley or another strait...
...rugby match at Marmande, France, between Marmande and Bergerac, a Marmande player nearly succeeded in strangling Beausoleil, the Bergerac captain. As Beausoleil was dragged off the field unconscious, his tongue hanging out, foam on his mouth, onlookers shouted, "Well done! Kill...
Died. Theodore Roberts, 67, famed & beloved cigar-smoking cinemactor, onetime sea captain; of influenza; in Los Angeles...