Word: dolphin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rear Admiral Henry Ware Lyon. 84, U. S. N. retired; at Washington; of heart disease. Commanding the U. S. S. Dolphin, he took part in more engage- ments, captured more prizes than any other officer in the Spanish-American war. In 1889 as executive officer of the U. S. S. Trenton he was at Apia, Samoa, when possession of the island was contested by Great Britain, Germany, the U. S. When a tidal wave drove ashore the warships of the three countries, he ordered his doomed ship's band to play the "Star-spangled Banner" while lashed...
...Lucas were not full of huge, hungry denizens that evening. Mr. Hoover trolled first with a spinner, then with a silver minnow, and watched the launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark Sullivan, political pundit of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Just as Mr. Hoover's "biggest one" struck, Pundit Sullivan hooked a small...
...Stevens had previously designed E. H. Button's Hussar, Mortimer L. Schiffs Dolphin, W. L. Mellon's Vaga-bondia, and Vincent Astor's Nourmahal (with Architect Ferris...
...excommunicate King John for combating Church administration; he stirred the English barons to demand the Magna Carta of John; later (after John's death) he supported the crown against the nobles. Thomas Cranmer (1533-56), himself twice married (first to "Black Joan," relative of the landlady of the Dolphin Inn at Cambridge where...
...Hoover got off a train at Key West, Fla. "I will make no active personal campaign," he said, "but will devote myself to my duties as head of the Department of Commerce." Then he had a hook baited, paid out his line and before sunset had caught five fat dolphin, "one of which," remarked an alert news-gatherer, "looked remarkably like Candidate Willis." As a flashing, gamey kingfish was being drawn in on the Hoover line, up swirled a shark and tore the prize away. Some thought, though none would say it, that the shark resembled Candidate Dawes. After three...