Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vain knife-faced French Minister Georges Bonnet fumed. Waiting for the President, he missed the Golden Arrow De Luxe Express to Paris, missed all the afternoon expresses and finally left London at 11 p. m. to toss all night on the Channel with a cabinet meeting in Paris scheduled as soon as he should arrive...
...driving run to Pulpit Harbor old salts gasped at the President's dexterity in zig-zagging the Amberjack II, rail down and all canvas drawing, through a labyrinth of coastal islands. Even the agile destroyers could not thread the risky channel at such breakneck speed, had to take to open water...
Ostert, a nimble stag, was chased by English huntsmen nine years ago into what they call the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche. Defying the English sportsmen, French fishermen pulled the stag aboard their smack, named him Ostert, found him a home in the private park of a French chateau near Le Touquet...
...last week, and in full uniform King George. Edward of Wales, the Duke of Gloucester and most of the Cabinet in levee dress stood on it waiting for a train. The train pulled in, and out stepped white-chinned King Feisal of Irak, who had been escorted across the Channel by four British destroyers, met at Dover by the Duke of York. Reporters admired his gleaming white tunic and his golden spurs. Guns banged a royal salute, and Kings, Cabinet Ministers and assorted princes rode down Buckingham Palace Road with a clattering cavalry escort. The welcome was not entirely...
...When Edward of Wales next crosses the Channel to golf, French socialites will present him with the stuffed and mounted head of Ostert who died last week in Le Touquet...