Word: decks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last hospital ship struggling in the Gatun Locks. And up above 234 airplanes would frolic around the Los Angeles. Undoubtedly Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett would be on board the dirigible, would look down upon the 40-mile ribbon, would say: "Ah What a Navy!"† echoing the quarter-deck thought of Admiral Samuel S. Robison who, this year, commands the Navy...
Press Welcome. The Chicago Tribune, which has probably printed more accounts of Prince Carol's amours and Queen Marie's alleged philanderings in Bucharest than any other U. S. newspaper, was guilty of the following editorial gaucherie: "[On the Leviathan Queen Marie] will be surrounded by the deck chairs of her old pals, most of whom have beards, and start their sentences with 'Woof.' Nobody not of the court will be allowed to set foot within a ship's length of the queen...
Meeting. A laughing green-clad woman stood upon the Dolphin's deck beside Sir Austen. She was the onetime Ivy Muriel Dundas, his wife - by royal creation a Dame of the British Empire (TIME, Dec. 14). When the purple orchids were handed on board she pinned them bravely upon her green dress. With the orchids came a card: "Benito Mussolini sends his kindest happy greetings to Lady Chamberlain...
...mile of tunnel will run across the river to the Business School from the power plans at the corner of Boylston street and the Parkway, under the deck of the bridge. This passageway will conduct steam heat to the Business buildings during the winter...
...sleek French packet Amiral Pierre steamed southward through the Mediterannean last week her first cabin passengers regarded with awe a squat, hawk-beaked Moroccan with a short bristling black beard who appeared now and then on deck always accompanied by two armed French guards. Spain and France had poured out hundreds of millions in gold, and tens of thousands in lives to place the sardonic Moroccan with his brother, their wives and suite upon the Amiral Pierre. Not six months ago Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother Muhammed were holding the Riffian fastnesses of Morocco against that master...