Word: cherbourg
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...dead in his palace, but that the fact would be concealed until after the return of Queen Marie to Bucharest. From every major Capital, Rumanian diplomats protested indignantly that their Sovereign was alive.* Meanwhile the Rumanian Court Chamberlain, General Angelesco, sped to meet Queen Marie on her arrival at Cherbourg...
Capt. Hartley, S. S. Leviathan: "On the roughest passage of my ship's career, to Cherbourg last week, a white owl took refuge in a funnel on the ship, 1,000 miles from Newfoundland. I shall present it to the Bronx Zoo. The S. S. American Trader the same week picked up a white owl 600 miles at sea, and will adopt it as mascot. The coast of Maine has lately reported large numbers of white owls landing there, evidently driven by starvation from Arctic regions...
Voyage. As she steamed toward the U. S. aboard the Leviathan last week, Queen Marie of Rumania saw anchored in her honor in the harbor of Cherbourg, France, the especially decorated and electrically festooned U. S. European flagship Memphis; arose before breakfast on the first morning for a plunge in the Leviathan's "Pompeian Swimming Pool" with her daughter Princess Ileana and son, Prince Nicholas; took tea with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in the latter's stateroom; visited the engine-room and shook hands with several minions who had been provided with white gloves against this contingency; was informed...
Boston, Halifax, Cape Breton, Cape Bonavista, Cape Clear (Ireland), Cornwall, Cherbourg, LeHavre, Paris. The ship will probably be started with all three motors roaring, a special carriage being necessary to help her off the ground. (This will be dropped en route, ordinary wheels serving for the Paris landing.) As fuel is used up, one motor will be cut out, then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic...
...offices had taken legal measures to oust it for failure to pay rent. The same day that word of the suspension came to the press, a despatch from Paris announced that General Pershing, arriving in France to inspect war monuments, cemeteries and battle fields, had motored up from Cherbourg to Paris with his young friend of war-days, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, who had gone to France for a rest and to have his teeth* fixed...