Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week King George VI sent his thanks for offers of help in the war to the peoples of the Falkland Islands and the Seychelles; to Grenada and the Windward Islands; to the "Council and Chiefs of the Gold Coast, Ashanti and the Northern Territory and to all members of the community"; and to "all sections of European, Asiatic and African communities of His Majesty's subjects in Nyasaland...
After the termination of the run in Boston, Miss Cornell plans to follow "No Time for Comedy" on a tour of the United States to the West Coast. Then she hopes to take a vacation, but says it is very possible that she will begin another performance -- probably a "bawdy" Shakespearean comedy--immediately...
Perhaps this situation will throw the most consternation into the face of the two great West Coast crows, California and Washington, who went into their seasons last year with relatively green outfits, partially through necessity and partially through the hope of building up an Olympic crew. Now the climax of the coming season is nonexistent, and these two top notch crews are apt to suffer from anticlimax all through the year...
...Campaign for attacking Germany from the rear. They were drafted by John Arbuthnot, Admiral Baron Fisher of Kilverstone who proposed a fleet of 612 shallow-draft boats, mostly transports, which would transit the Baltic approaches at whatever cost and land Russian troops picked up at Riga, on the Pomeranian Coast. The transports' passage around Denmark would be protected by the British Fleet's engaging the German Fleet...
...Charles Wharton Stork, a professor of English from Bryn Mawr, Pa., survived the Athenia, got passage home on the U. S. freighter Wacosta. Off the Irish coast, a submarine stopped the Wacosta with a shot across her bows. Only person who volunteered to talk German with the Nazi commander who came aboard was Professor Stork. After searching the Wacosta this officer said (Stork translation): "We are not so very barbarous, are we? Except that I do need a shave. . . . I'll see you in New York at a tea dance...