Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship owners of the British Commonwealth are seeing snakes- not the pink snakes which consort with orange toads, purple salamanders and magenta tarantulas-but sea snakes with long green bodies, gliding through great billows of discontent with only their heads sticking out-heads with red hoods, with the flittering tongue of Trotzky and the penetrating eyes of Lenin...
Going. In Battle Harbor, Labrador, a place of gray rock domes, fretted shoreline, low islands: and a horizon studded with icebergs, the Bowdoin, flagship of Explorer Donald B. MacMillan's Polar expedition, lay at anchor waiting for her consort, the Peary. When the latter turned up, she explained that a fierce storm near the Strait of Belle Isle had forced her to heave to for fear of damage to the expedition's three Navy planes which she carried lashed to her decks. Board screens had been erected against the hammering seas and no damage was done...
...seasons. Last week, the King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Henry, Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles; Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat"), the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, onetime (1908-10) King Manoel of Portugal and his consort drove in semi-state from Windsor Castle to the race course. Down the turf, cheers thundering on either side, the royal party were driven in open carriages with postillions and outriders in scarlet and gold to the royal enclosure...
...that it seems likely that little will come of the matter, it is interesting to conjecture what rash motives impelled the undergraduates. Was their petition based on the desire for unhampered week-ends? Or did they fear that in the new chapel they could not "with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep"? It seems most probable that Princeton is able to "love the high embowed roof, with antique pillars massy proof" just so long as the "storied windows rightly dight" do not east upon the student body too frequent "a dim religious light...
Before Captain Robbie's white $ on its field of red can be sole consort of the stars and stripes on the Pacific, his son?and the Fleishhackers?must finish the battle. They have against them the legal talent of Senator Chamberlain, a hard fighter, the general reluctance of taxpayers to admit the necessity of selling $6,000,000 boats...