Word: channell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some channel of friendship or finance, Personality, six-months-old pet magazine of potent Publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday, obtained, and last week brought to light, excerpts from the childish diary of a puny boy who, born 69 years ago, was destined to grow strapping strong, fearlessly articulate and world-famed as Theodore Roosevelt...
Claire, once almost a channel swimmer, turns up on one of the smaller islands, but chafes under the obvious intentions of its two male citizens, and dives off in the wake of departing seagulls, just as a renewed upheaval submerges the island anyway. An overnight's swim brings her to company less aggressive but very dull, so after a few weeks' rest she swims off again-in search of a mate. Him she finds in Martin, erstwhile lawyer, who is quickly adapting himself to the laws of nature-storing up loot for the winter, beating off dogs that...
France established three important air routes last week. A passenger line was started between London and Cannes, pearl of the French Riviera. Another was begun between Southampton and Cherbourg, where the English Channel is generally rough. But most important of all, France began air mail service to South America...
...might have happened to anyone. Brambles Bank almost completely blocks the Southampton channel off Cowes. It was only a minor accident and the Leviathan was afloat again in two hours, when the tide rose. But Commodore Cunningham tugged his cap down over the face that has caused him to be called "Handsome Harry," in grim mortification...
...fancies and foibles and reduce all else to hazy indistinction. Only occasionally, when fads are scarce, he must turn to what is merely new, whether or not it possesses the gaudy qualities that best suit his vein. In hard times like these, when Mah Jong, Princeton, the crossword puzzle, channel swimming, Lindbergh, Mayor Thompson and Hickman are no longer news, he is obliged to seize whatever the day offers. Such understanding of an old, yet somehow ever new, problem explains the consideration of the Reading Period in the current issuse of the Lampoon...