Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Gibraltar last week sad little Haile Selassie disembarked from the cruiser Capetown, waited quietly in the Rock Hotel for the liner Orford to take him to England. The British Government avoided unnecessary trouble with Italy by announcing that the bearded Lion of Judah would travel to England incognito, would receive no royal honors. For Saturday breakfast Haile Selassie looked with disfavor at a plate of kippered herring, called instead for bacon & eggs, U. S. style...
Three weeks ago Ethiopia's deposed little Emperor Haile Selassie walked down the gangplank of the British cruiser Enterprise at Haifa. Behind him trotted his beloved white & tan papillon. Last week at Haifa the Conquered Lion of Judah walked up the gangplank of another British cruiser, the Capetown, which was to take him to Gibraltar. Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits...
...beyond the party must climb to try to establish camp at 27,800 ft. Once there, they have two choices. They can mount the pinnacle by way of the notorious First & Second Steps, the latter of which rises smooth and sheer for 100 ft. like a battle-cruiser's bow. Or they can follow a long band of rocks skirting the summit and leading to a long, shallow couloir which points straight up the face to the top. George Leigh Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine are thought to have climbed the First Step before they met their death...
...eyed crowd of Egyptians lined the quayside at Suez last week as the British cruiser Enterprise passed through. Several dozen dejected Ethiopians could be seen under the quarter-deck awning, but among them was not the bearded, tiny figure all eyes sought. Haile Selassie, Conquered Lion of Judah, was below decks with a secretary checking over box after box of gold bars, clinking Maria Theresa silver thalers...
...cruiser "Karlsruhe" visited Boston in 1934; anti-Nazi demonstrations of the most discourteous sort were thought to be necessary, and were only quashed by the constabulary. The bad taste which characterized the fracas at one of the "Bremen" sailings last year has recently been exhibited again in more intense form in the controversy over Heidelberg's invitations. If the hissing that accompanies newsreel shots of the "Hindenburg" is any criterion by which to judge a general attitude, than the visit of Germany's new airship will be a total loss so far as that nebulous international bluff, good-will...