Word: christen
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...Buckingham Palace last week after certain newspic- tures from Greenock, Scotland, had caught a royal eye. One showed a bottle of champagne exploding all over Lady Shaw-Stewart, dignified spouse of the Lord Lieutenant for Renfrewshire, just as she launched His Majesty's newest cruiser with the words, "I christen thee Galatea...
...hundred yards out in the bay, the champagne bottle slipped out of her hand. Three hundred yards out, she caught up with the yacht, grabbed her bottle as it bobbed by, smashed it on the bow at the waterline, spit out a mouthful of salt water, choked "I christen thee Segochet...
...California oil lands rewarded him with enough money to quit the Penney company and move to Beverly Hills, Year ago he bought a five-acre place at Arcadia, 15 mi. outside Los Angeles. He and his invalid wife gave a little house-warming one night last week to christen a new pavilion and swimming pool...
...sentimental and legal reasons, tiny Penzance was chosen for the first performance of The Pirates of Penzance. Cairo got the opening of Aida to christen its new opera house. For no particular reason at all, Dallas, Tex. was the scene last week of a world premiere of a play by George Bernard Shaw...
...would have us believe that it must have rained Lux during a track meet to christen Harvard's old runner "Soapy" Walters, that it takes a warm moist spring to name a "Bud"' Weiser, a long hot summer to make "Dusty'' Rhodes, the big-league ball player, or a Oriental climate to grow a "Fig" Newton; whereas probably any one knows that those names, like Topsy, "just grew." A boy named Pond probably is called "Duck" in grade school, unless unfortunately he should happen to be a "Lily...