Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer. For its pioneer cruise the company refitted its 3,868-ton icebreaker Victoria, booked passengers at $250 to $390. Last week, laden to the gunwales with 500 "arm-chair adventurers" and well started on its 7,000-mile, 26-day itinerary, the Victoria sailed from Nome for the dash to the ice pack's fringe. Later the ship will call at a Siberian port by special permission of the Soviet Government...
...Duce himself will dash from post to post to see that all of them are on their toes. The first day of maneuvers caught him in the Futa Pass in the Apppenines just as a regiment of cock-feathered Bersaglieri, the corps in which he served during the War, was passing. Out of his staff jumped Benito to shoulder a rifle and stride along with the column for over a mile. Promptly he amended his orderto his Cabinetnot only to serve with the trrops, but to mix with the trops "to get into the spirit...
...good, but Minister von Papen did not go to Vienna last week. He was said to be insisting that his presence in Austria would be worse than useless so long as Germany supported the so-called "Austrian Legion" of Nazis who have escaped from Austria but intend to dash back for a coup at the first favorable moment. For days von Papen was reported bickering with Hitler over the Legion. Then the big guns of the German Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment fired a salvo of announcements that the Austrian Legion had been dissolved, added touching details...
...died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants but ended in defeat and capture for Morgan and most of his men. Imprisoned in the Columbus Penitentiary, Morgan and six of his officers tunneled their way out, got safely back through the Northern lines...
Almost exactly abreast as they spun into the turn after the first length of the pool, Olive McKean and Lenore Kight started back through the ruffled water for the final dash. As if a private current favored her, Miss McKean drew smoothly ahead in the last 25 meters, touched the wall a full three yards ahead. Later in the same afternoon, swimming with a precise cadence of 51 strokes per lap for 32 laps, Miss Kight consoled herself by winning the mile swim...