Word: christenings
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Swearing Off. To christen a new 4,000-h.p. diesel-electric locomotive in Cleveland last week, the Erie Railroad used, instead of champagne, a bottle of locomotive smoke. The Erie thus marked the complete conversion from steam to diesels on its Cleveland passenger runs...
...gentle, variable winds. The afternoon's competition will begin at 4:45 o'clock when Bert Haines' first and second shells of 150 pounders face M.I.T. and Tabor Academy on a 1 5-16 mile course. At 5:10 o'clock the Crimson, Cornell, M.I.T., and Princeton Jayvees will christen the 1 3/4 mile course...
...Washington's National Airport she murmured, "I christen you the U.S. Capitol" and smartly swung a scored, netcovered* bottle of domestic champagne against the shiny nose of an Army C-54 hospital plane. Nothing happened. Pursing her lips, Bess Truman struck again, a backhand swipe. There were nervous titters. After nine determined tries the plane's nose was dented, the bottle still unbroken. Bess Truman passed it to an Air Forces major; when he failed to break it the party admitted defeat, moved on to christen a Navy plane with another bottle. There, on Mrs. Truman...
...Tamalpais (pronounced tam-el-pie'-iss), in whose shadow they work. The Navy said no. Reason: Navy regulations say that oilers shall be named after rivers, not mountains. The workers then took a leaf out of the Navy notebook. They persuaded the Marin County Board of Supervisors to christen an unnamed creek Tamalpais. Last week the Navy stiffly notified the yard that it was all right to name their oiler S.S. Tamalpais -after the stream...
Woman: "Sure. Didn't you hear the story-Bing Crosby, I think it was. They gave him a bottle of champagne and asked him to christen a Liberty ship. He said O.K. but where was it? He couldn't see any ship. So they said, 'Start swinging the bottle, brother-it'll be there...