Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing of the crew whom Captain Nobile has abandoned on the Polar ice. As the years pass General Nobile will grow so weary of explaining why he was the first to leave his ship. Those explanations will be sufficient punishment...
Though Edward of Wales has more than once been Captain Loewenstein's guest other members of the British Royal Family have displayed a very different attitude. Mme. Loewenstein, a young and cheerful woman of admired proportions, completes the fiscal fairy tale of Beauty and the Ogre...
...Captain Loewenstein, said his servants, had been reading a book, laid it down after carefully marking the place, took off his collar and tie, went to the washroom, vanished. The servants all professed that they felt no such rush of air as would commonly be experienced if the door of the plane, which was opposite the washroom door, had been opened and become a funnel for the suction of the 175 mile gale...
However, since real-life Ogres no longer vanish, in the fairy tale sense, the six Loewenstein servants were reduced to explaining that, although they had not felt the open door blast, still the door must have opened, and Captain Loewenstein must have leaped to voluntary or accidental death...
...municipal memorial service for Captain Alfred Loewenstein was announced to take place at the Church of St. Michael and St. Gudale in Brussels, then cancelled "for the reason that the fact of Death has not been established," then reannounced...