Word: christeners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bremen. . . . Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. . . . I hail the Bremen and the Europa as new links between Europe and America. I hail them as manifestations of the indestructible German capacity for work. ... I christen thee Bremen!" One of the two new links between Europe and America was shattered last week, at a single blow. Aboard the nearly completed Europa fire broke out simultaneously at four points, deep in the 'tween decks. Every precaution had been taken against such a conflagration. For months...
...week, in the Lateran Palace, an austere and gloomy pile, presented to the papacy 16 centuries ago by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Successive pontiffs resided in the Lateran until removal of the papal residence to Avignon (1309 A.D.). It contains the Sanctum Sanctorum, Chapel, "Mother Church of Christen-dom"; reached by a'flight of steps which no Catholic, not even the Pope, may ascend otherwise than on his or her knees...
Thus, melodiously, did the Ward Line christen the ships of the profitable Havana trade. Year after year, they have plied comfortably and euphoniously between Cuba and New York, carrying many a lodge brother, Greek-letter man, Pan-American conferee and others to whom Havana has offered, since 1919, increasingly attractive facilities for convivial conventions...
Next to the family of French, the family of Johansen has added most distinction to the exhibitions in the old Casino. Painter John Christen Johansen came first to Stockbridge to visit his good friend Walter Leighton Clark. Enchanted, he remained to colonize, paint. Great and friendly is the rivalry between Painter Johansen and Painter Jean MacLane. Both rank with the foremost U. S. portrait painters, whose canvasses are held bargains...
...when the orator was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . " Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. ... I christen thee Bremen...