Word: cherbourg
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...racers are to fly in 30 hours to Victoria, B. C., board the Empress of Russia, fastest (8-day) trans-Pacific vessel, jump from Japan to Vladivostok in a Japanese destroyer (it is hoped), spend nine days on the Siberian railroad, fly from Moscow to Berlin, to Amsterdam, to Cherbourg, hoping to catch the Mauretania, fastest (5-day) trans-Atlantic vessel...
...went to serve as a nurse in the Cherbourg naval hospital. A severe wound forced her to leave the service. She was awarded the silver Medal of Honor. Flammarion made her his partner, collaborator, housekeeper. On Sept. 9, 1919, he married her. Their wedding caused the worthies of Juvissy to whisper the inevitable ribaldries that occur to the vulgar whenever an aging celebrity marries a young girl. It is only recently that the public has learned the part she actually took in his work...
Sailed from Cherbourg on the good ship Olympic the Belgian Debt Mission, the personnel of which is: ex-Premier Georges Theunis; Felician Cattier, head of La Banque d'Outremer; Baron Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Ambassador to the U. S.; fenile Francqui, Vice Governeur de la Société Générale de Belgique...
President Gaston Doumergue left Paris for Cherbourg, where he reviewed "what of our fleet is left to us." Speaking on board the cruiser Paris at a luncheon of honor, he stressed the imperious necessity of a well-equipped navy for the protection of France and her vast overseas empire...
...staggered drunkenly along a Cherbourg quay. French police espied him, attempted to hand him over to the U. S. S. Pittsburgh's police; but his cries for help attracted the attention of six of his mates, who successfully pummeled the police and rescued the unsteady gob. The matter was reported to Vice Admiral Andrews...