Word: christenings
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Walking gingerly under a large umbrella with a George III silver jug of wine in her hand. Queen Mary leaned over the dock's edge, poured the wine into the water. "I christen this dock King George the Fifth!" said...
Without anyone's having done anything Cruiser A began to slide down the ways-nameless. It was time for HINDENBURG to seize that bottle of wine and hurl it with all his strength, hoping to hit-christen the now fast moving Cruiser...
Early Hearstian thrills became evident while the ship moored at Brooklyn. To hook the projected trip up with some-thing everyone knows, Jean Jules Verne, a staid public prosecutor of Rouen, France, imported for the occasion, was to christen Sir Hubert's submarine the Nautilus after the fantastic craft which ''Captain Nemo" sailed Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea in Prosecutor Verne's famed grandfather's imagination. Readers were allowed to believe that it was from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that...
...shall prevent any State from directing and controlling absolutely the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors within its borders. . . . This plan prevents the return of the saloon. . . . In order that the Democratic party will not be called 'Wet' or 'Dry' I should like to christen this plan as the 'home-rule plan' because it is neither a Wet nor a Dry plan but a plan under which the people, through their respective States, may exercise the right of self-determination...
...American Export Steamship Corp. launch its first of four 8,700-ton vessels built with U. S. loans under the new Merchant Marine Act. A whistle tooted; Mrs. Hoover put down her roses, took a basketed bottle of spring water, cracked it smartly over the moving prow, exclaimed: "I christen thee Excalibur." Declared the first lady: "I got a real thrill when my hand touched the bow of that powerful vessel." Later in the week at Camp May Flather near Harrisonburg, Va. Mrs. Hoover broke an ivy rope, presented a 100-ft. rustic bridge across North river to the girl...