Word: christeners
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...christen thee...
...white arm held a sheaf of pink roses; the other white arm waved gaily. There in the yards of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Grace Goodhue Coolidge?for it was she?took a full-arm swing and smashed a bottle of sparkling mineral water on a stout steel hull, crying, "I christen thee Northampton...
...struck again. No damage was done. Up stepped manly Homer Lenoir Ferguson, President of Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (see col. 1), took the bottle in his hand, shattered it to fragments. The monster slid away before his blow, slipped into the shining waters of the River James. "Ah christen thee Houston," murmured Miss Holcombe...
...Giannini will probably become Board Chairman. Elisha Walker will head the investment affiliate. It is expected that two Brooklyn banks-Traders' National and Nassau National will soon join the Bank of America family. Because news of the merger leaked out prematurely, and because merged banks are hard to christen, no name for the new institution had been chosen last week...
Back and forth through the Panama Canal a staunch new freight boat will soon shuttle between Hamburg, Germany, and Oakland, California. Last week roving Mayor John L. Davie of Oakland was in Germany to christen the new freighter Oakland. On his way to Hamburg from Madrid, he stopped at Paris. Sympathetic correspondents reported his observations as follows...