Word: christeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Died. Viscount Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 71, Britain's Wartime Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; of heart disease after long illness; at Fallodon, Christen Bank, Northumberland. He was Foreign Secretary longer (1905-16) than any other man, was instrumental in shaping the policy which kept England friendly to France, hostile to Germany. In June 1914 he sought desperately to avert the World War, as long as possible delayed sending to Germany the ultimatum on Belgian neutrality which preceded England's declaration of war. For this he was blamed by Englishmen who felt that...