Word: christeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodan, 71, Britain's Wartime Foreign Secretary, gravely, of heart disease, in Christen Bank, Northumberland; California's Governor James Rolph Jr., of congestion of the lungs and high fever, in San Francisco; Betty Compton Walker, of colitis, in Evian-les-Bains, France; Actress Tallulah Bankhead, of acute abdominal trouble, in Manhattan; Valerie Marguerite Germonpres von Stroheim, third wife of Film Director Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Nordenwall von Stroheim, of burns about the head and shoulders and seared lungs when a hair-drying machine in a beauty shop ignited, in Hollywood...
...ankle, was carried off. The band played "Over There." The boat still stood still. Then the band played "Anchors Aweigh." The cruiser began to move. With one arm full of roses, pretty Miss Cora Stanton Jahncke smashed a bottle of Mississippi water across the retreating bow, declaiming: "I christen thee N'yawlins...
...control car. The band changed to "Anchors Aweigh." There were speeches. On behalf of his city Mayor Toole presented to Commander Alger Herman Dresel a silver service for the ship's wardroom.* Someone handed Mrs. Moffett a red-white-&-blue cord suspended from the airship. Declaiming "I christen thee Macon!", she yanked the cord. Two hatches in the underside of the Macon's snout flopped open, spilling out 48 alarmed pigeons which flapped excitedly about the dock. Thirty-four of the birds then streaked through the aperture of the great orange-peel doors. Outside, two of them (Miss...
...Traveling to Newport News, Mrs. Hoover cracked a bottle of grapejuice over the prow of the Navy's newest aircraft carrier (13,500 tons with superstructure to starboard of landing table). Declared she: "I christen thee Ranger." Said she later: "I shall always have a soft spot in my heart for the Navy because its blue-jackets once saved the life of my husband and myself from Oriental bullets and knives...
...Questioned about cheerful reports that the Cunard Line would resume construction of their superliner, might christen her the Princess Elizabeth and might even build a sister ship, Scot MacDonald said: "I have made a careful inquiry but can find no basis for these reports...