Word: dover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cherbourg the Majestic, Minnedosa, Empress of Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...
Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam the English Channel from Dover to Calais. (Although the distance was only 22.5 miles as the crow flies, he swam approximately 56 miles miles.) Sullivan, 31, made his first unsuccessful attempt to swim the channel ten years ago and has made five other unsuccessful attempts since then...
...Dover, England, Leon Amundsen, brother of Roald (explorer), received a telegram dated Norwick, Alaska: "Trial flight held May 11. result very unsatisfactory. Sorry forced to abandon proposed flight [over North Pole]. Have written...
Verner Warren Clapp 2G., whose disappearance on Thursday, May 17, was the cause of a state-wide search to ascertain his whereabouts, is now at his home in Dover, N. R., according to information received from his cousin last night...
...London! at the Prince of Wales, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Partners Again, Secrets, a New Yorker could almost spend every night of a week in London seeing plays he had already seen in America, Though why he should is, of course, quite another matter. And then there is From Dover Street to Dixie at the; Pavilion, a new revue, featuring in its second section Florence Mills and members of the colored company that, used to be at the Plantation Cabaret...