Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell House is adding to its closetful of traditions 15 Port Glasses with the House Crest. They may be used for the Harvard Beer served nightly at High Table, for though the House has seven squash courts, and some fine lockers for ageing firewood, it has as yet no wine cellar...
...floating airport to serve transoceanic planes. Invented 15 years ago, it continues to meet with practical objections. As background for a futuristic cinema it functions admirably. F. P. 1 is therefore exciting and at times interestingly realistic. Major Ellissen (Conrad Veidt) is an air hero riding the crest of his publicity. His best friend Captain Droste (Leslie Fenton) is sunk in the obscurity of an inventor's workroom. Ellissen uses his position to call attention to Droste's plan for a seadrome, persuades the Lennartz shipbuilding firm to construct it. Claire Lennartz (Jill Esmond) also falls a victim...
...doctor on board the Empress of Britain, commissioned as an armed merchant-cruiser, served at other posts on sea and ashore. One night standing with the skipper on the bridge of a new destroyer, taking her speed trials in a full gale, he saw something bob past on the crest of a wave. "It had a lifebelt round its body, the face was that of a skeleton, but the scalp was intact and the sodden tresses of hair were black and very long...
...Chicago Opera Company, so-named after an Aïda performance Salmaggi put on at Soldier Field last autumn, ends its Hippodrome run this week on the crest of financial success. During the summer Salmaggi intends to put on open-air Aïda in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh, in the dirigible hangar in Akron. Between times he will hear new singers, rehearse diligently, get new scenery together for the autumn when he will give two months of opera at the Hippodrome. Backers Mayberry and Carroll care nothing about spreading culture (the tin-cup cry of the Metropolitan). But if their...
...most fabulous dwelling place in the U. S. is the ranch of William Randolph Hearst. Midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, it surveys the Pacific along a 50-mile crest of hills. Five times the size of the District of Columbia, its 240,000 acres give lordly privacy to its little capital. La Cuesta Encantada. On this Enchanted Hill, the monarch's castle rears cathedral towers to the sky. On the hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens...