Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President called to the White House for a brief conference, late in the week, good-natured Captain Adolphus Andrews, for three years skipper of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, and his successor, Captain Wilson Brown, who served until recently as aide to the Commander of the Pacific destroyer squadron and commanded during the War the anti-submarine patrol ship Parker...
...Templeton. Miss Templeton emerges out of a luxurious and presumably peaceful retirement in Pittsburgh to play Little Buttercup. She weighs three times what she did when she was the queen of the old Weber and Fields music hall. The audience, boisterously affectionate in their greeting, agreed with the captain of the Pinafore that she was "a plump and pleasing person...
Wilkins. Fairbanks, Alaska, kept its radio ear cocked. But after the message (TIME, April 12) saying that Captain Wilkins and Pilot Eielson had brought their freight-laden monoplane Alaskan safely to earth 560 miles northward at Point Barrow, the Arctic air yielded no more news of them...
...they sped, peering over the horizon for some distant rising film that would mean land. They reached what their instruments told them was the approximate point reached by Captain Robert E. Bartlett in the ice-ship Karluk in 1913; flew another hour, whizzing 70 miles into a frozen desert never before penetrated by man. When they circled back they had seen no land, but from their lofty lookout they had explored by eye a swath of the unknown perhaps 60 miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before...
...heard the laconic comment of Major Cooper Key that "America has put the brains of a veteran into a youth of 17." Public sentiment forced Mills into the match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over the sophomores in the annual class rush, waited on table and shined shoes (as an initiation rite). In 1907 he beat Vane H. Fennel for the right to play Mills again, and after one of the hardest court tennis matches ever played in England...