Word: dover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since Stanley Baldwin said that Great Britain's frontier is no longer the white cliffs of Dover but the wimpling Rhine (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934) have Berlin statesmen been so vexed at London as they were last week. Reason: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for War, the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff-Cooper, had hied himself to Paris and there made a speech in which he told Frenchmen...
...Grimsby ordered Captain George Black Osborne and a crew of four to "test the engines" of Girl Pat, a brand new 130-ton motor trawler with auxiliary sail. Once outside the harbor, Girl Pat made a beeline for the south. Two days later she put in at Dover, dropped the engineer, picked up another, set out again at once. On April 12 she appeared at Corcubion, Spain, badly damaged by storms. Going ashore, the crew had her repaired, bought $1,175 worth of provisions, sent the bill to the owners at Grimsby. On April 21 Girl Pat again puffed...
Editor Grey was enraged at France's supposed intention of sending French Moroccan troops to police the Rhineland. Cried he, "A typical example of French feminine mentality! . . . Suppose that France had demanded that we should allow niggers and Moors in French uniforms to garrison Margate, Dover, Folkestone, Eastbourne, Seaford, Brighton and Worthing. . . . As a purely ethnological fact one might argue that the fair-haired, blue-eyed Berbers of Morocco, and the Riffs, who are in fact the last remnants of the Teutonic Vandal Kingdom of Northern Africa, are better white men than the little dark scum of Southern France...
...Eckener was aboard the von Hindenburg as "supervisor." In command was seamy, seasoned Captain Ernst August Lehmann (TIME, April 6). Carefully de touring around France and Belgium, thus losing eight hours, the von Hindenburg passed the white cliffs' of Dover, swashed along at 58 knots over the waves toward Pernambuco, Brazil. Above the Equator the passengers were baptized not by the Sea's "Neptune" but by "Aeolus," god of the winds. One hundred hours out of Friedrichshafen, the von Hindenburg snored over Rio de Janeiro, was warped painfully to the mast at brand new Santa Cruz airdock. Thirty...
...gigantic outdoor sets constructed under Art Director Vincent Korda were Mr. Mann's miniatures: a space gun 20 feet high (see cut) with tiny puppets running around it on moving belts; bat-shaped airplanes apparently capable of carrying armies; a sky-darkening air-force swooping over the Dover Cliffs...