Word: cornelius
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Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
...encouraging reports on cancer: Hormones & Vitamins. Reporting on the work of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, world's No. 1 cancer clinic, Director Cornelius Rhoads discussed two frontal attacks on the disease...
...Delhi, sandy-haired Socialite Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps...
...constant references to her as "the daughter of a '49er," met him in a nightclub and scolded: "You are a rude, scurrilous man." "Yes, I am," he replied, "but I'd rather make a living that way than by selling bonds." For years he needled Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt by calling her Mrs. Brigadier General Vanderbilt. Introduced to her unexpectedly one day by Vincent Astor, Paul stammered: "I'm not really the disreputable person you think I am, Mrs. Vanderbilt." Said Mrs. Vanderbilt gently: "From what you have been writing about me, I was under the impression that...
...Germany that a group of top-flight Left-Bank painters and sculptors (some of them formerly listed by Hitler's Kulturkammer as "degenerate artists") were touring and lecturing in Germany as guests of the Third Reich. The guests: Painters Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cornelius van Dongen, Othon Friesz, Sculptors Paul Maximiliaen Landowski, Charles Despiau. Notably not there was the name of pre-war Paris' greatest painter, bulky Spanish-born Pablo Picasso, who presumably had had the guts to decline the invitation...