Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, earlier in the week, Prince George, youngest son of the King Emperor, entered the booth of a crystal-gazing fortune teller, laid down a crown. . . . "Your father," said the seer, "was a sea captain but he has retired." Prince George nodded encouragement. His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth. "Your eldest brother . . . wait, young man . . . you must warn him! I see him in the crystal. . . . It is tomorrow. He rides in a race and I see him fall. . . ." Laughing, Prince George strode from the booth. Later he warned Edward of Wales...
Almost to the finish Lady Boon led, then swerved suddenly, almost throwing Edward from his saddle. Tenacious, he kept his seat, but lost the race to one Captain Stevenson...
...London, the Opposition kept Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain continually on the grill, answering questions which disputed the veracity of the official British- version of events at Nanking (TIME, April 4) when Chinese rioted and U. S. and British gunboats shelled the city. Finally, in the House of Commons, Captain Duff-Cooper (Conservative) asked Sir Austen whether he knew that the Labor weekly, published by George Lansbury, M. P. (Opposition) had actually declared that the members of the Baldwin Cabinet are collectively responsible for the loss of life at Nanking. "So they are!" shouted Mr. Lansbury. "What I said...
Most picturesque of the fathers of television is Captain John L. Baird (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926), long-haired, bespectacled Scotsman, who gave birth to his ideas in an attic. Inventor Baird prefers baggy, woolly suits with a potent plaid; he has been so heavily handicapped by lack of money that parts of his first apparatus were improvised from dismembered bicycles, shoeboxes, wax, twine, pliers, screws, gimcracks. Last week, the manna of money fell thickly about him. A company with a capital of $625,000 was incorporated in London to exploit and perfect his process of television...
Among the point-winners who figured against Tech last spring who will face the M. I. T. squad again, are Captain E. C. Haggerty '27, several times Inter-collegiate champion over the mile distance: A. H. O'Neil '28, middle distance star who captained the Freshman two years ago, A. H. Miller, '27, a sure point winner in the past and C. A. Pratt '28, all-round performer in the weight events...