Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile British destroyers hurried back & forth across the channel escorting to England five kings, the President of France, two queens, four crown princes and a crown princess, 14 princes and ten Foreign Ministers. For one & all were fired salutes. Queen Maud of Norway, only surviving child of Britain's Edward VII, arrived with her tall King Haakon VII; Queen Alexandrine of Denmark with her even taller King Christian X. Sad Leopold III, widower King of the Belgians, came with his brother. Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria left his Tsarina in Sofia...
That little Rudyard, the precocious child who soon read himself into near blindness, should be the genius who made Englishmen really see for the first time their great, fabulous and glowing Empire of India was a supreme quirk of Fate...
Getting ready to move his wife & child to his new headquarters in Chicago, President Gorrell last week explained his job: "We want to eliminate competition between airlines ... to cut expense . . . to progress. As an example, we want to build a new ship to carry 40 passengers that will completely outclass all present ships. That project would take half a million dollars. If we can get together on it, we can do it much more cheaply...
Biggest was a 56-ft., 26-ton yacht priced at $36,000. Smallest was a child's six-foot playboat. Fastest was a Century hydroplane guaranteed to go 65 m. p. h. To see these and one hundred other craft, worth $2,000,000 and drydocked temporarily in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, the biggest crowd (20,000) in its history attended the premiere of the annual Motor Boat Show last week...
...19th Century. Which is to say it amounted to nothing. She looked at the world and explained it in terms of the pet theories of a few fashionable authors. For instance, she sincerely believed that every man had been in love with his mother when he was a child." His wit has plenty of vinegar: "It is a great mistake to place unlimited confidence in the malice of man. They seldom do us all the harm they might...