Word: doings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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* Poetic license. Snowdrifts are blue-grey at dawn, do not look white until after sunrise.
All Sunday Captain Carey was striving to reach by radio the Voltaire, of his own line, bound north and in the approximate locality. Meanwhile, the Voltaire had been instructed to go to aid the laboring Vestris. She could not do so on account of broken propeller and adverse winds.
At 9 o'clock, Captain Carey, hitherto indifferent to pleas of passengers to "do something," ordered women and children on deck.
It is always plain that Europe and the United States are lacking in mutual understanding. . . . They appear to think that we are going to do exactly what they would do if they had our chance. . . . It is befitting that we should pursue our course . . . in accordance with the requirements of...
Anyone who believes in the Divine Right of Kings-and surprisingly many Hungarians still do-knows that it is now Count Bethlen's pious duty to hail Archduke Otto as the Apostolic King of Hungary. But last week the Count-Dictator merely said: "For the thirty-sixth time I...