Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nosed, soft-spoken man named Judson Churchill Welliver. Mr. Welliver was an oldtime Washington correspondent and magazine writer for the late Frank A. Munsey. President Harding put him to work gathering factual material for Presidential addresses, outlining speeches, making ponderous platitudes interesting. So well-trained was he in his craft that Mr. Welliver soon could ape the Harding literary style to the complete bewilderment of the White House newsgatherers. He had another duty: to sit in the executive office lobby and amid much blue cigaret smoke converse in low important tones with older Washington correspondents about White House doings...
...great swelling throb of joy in the solemn throat of Old Paul von Hindenburg as he launched the Bremen with these words: "Seventy years ago [when President Hindenburg was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . . Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. . . . I hail the Bremen and the Europa as new links between Europe and America. I hail them as manifestations of the indestructible German capacity for work...
Cornered by other U.S. craft 24 hours later on the high seas, the I'm Alone was sent down by gunfire from the cutter Dexter. The man killed was a Negro seaman. The rest of the crew, in irons, were carried to New Orleans aboard the Dexter. Admiral Billard was positive the pursuit began within the twelve-mile limit and therefore within the terms of the British Rum Treaty. But the British embassy was not so sure...
...black buoy bobbed up among the waves. Three anxious minutes crawled by. Then the head of Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski plopped out on the surface. A minute later Lieut. Charles B. Momsen emerged. They were the first two U. S. submariners ever to escape directly from a sunken craft...
...thousands who followed the flight of General Nobile and felt the sudden silence of his craft, "The Italia," and traced day by day the rescue effort, knew somehow that there was a Russian boat called an ice-breaker and named "Krassin," which reminded many only of some wild drink, beating her way north among the floes. Perhaps there was in the minds of some a sense of incongruity that a Soviet ship, owned by a government which most people think is the enemy of mankind, should be on a mission of mercy...