Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhere in France. Not everyone knew that his younger brother, Prince Henry, 39, Duke of Gloucester, is chief liaison officer of the B. E. F., with a major general's rank. Correspondent Angly was standing on a corner with his officer guide when up whirled an official car driven by an officer, with the chauffeur on the back seat. To Mr. Angly's glad amazement, the driver was the Duke, an old friend of his guide. "They chatted a while and even swapped limericks* now as in World War I the favorite British form of arousing the risibles...
...Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who resigned his post as Governor General last April because the Colonial Assembly refused to let him have an automobile (only garbage and soldiers were allowed trucks) must have been piqued to hear that cars were now permitted all over the islands. Fire engines and ambulances filled with war workers screeched through Hamilton; the Army rumbled around in "trolleys"-large trucks formerly used for carrying convicts to work; manager of the Mid-Ocean Club, who owned a car for use within the Club's 200-acre estate, dashed happily back & forth with...
...World War I, taught at the University of Leeds and Cologne and for 16 years at University of Toronto before he went to Cornell last year. He remained a member of the Church of England but otherwise quickly became Americanized. He moved into an old colonial farmhouse, drove a car, played a good game of golf, joined a few clubs. Slim, fair and sandy-haired, he likes to play the piano, smokes a pipe, looks younger than his 46 years. He has two daughters, aged eight...
...planes which this country had already improved upon. One of France's top fighters is the Curtiss P-36, of which she bought 200. Its 275-300 m. p. h. are not enough. Its air-cooled engine, offering considerable wind resistance ("like running for a trolley car with your overcoat open," says Al Williams), does not streamline as neatly as liquid-cooled power-plants. However, the French have repeatedly expressed themselves satisfied with the P-36, and have claimed that it even outfights the Messerschmitt, being more maneuverable...
Birthdays. King Carol of Rumania, his 46th; Aimee Semple McPherson, her 49th; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her 55th (see p. 19); William Richard Morris, Lord Nuffield, Britain's No. 1 automogul ("The Morris Car is a Ford with an Oxford Education"), his 62nd, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, his 67th...