Word: dover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bond Street. Afterward he dined with Foreign Secretary and Mrs. Anthony Eden, then made such a night of it that next morning frantic Rumanian attaches went about bleating . "Our King is lost!" and only found him just in time to rush His Majesty aboard his special boat train. Dover Castle gave him a farewell 21-gun salute as he stepped aboard the British destroyer Montrose. Of the five kings attending the funeral only two, Carol of Rumania and Boris of Bulgaria, were ferried across the Channel on a British destroyer; in addition they both received the honor of an escort...
...Horrible Hohenzollern," buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania, put his Jewish Mistress Magda Lupescu aboard his Royal Train at Bucharest and rattled off to Paris where Magda alighted and remained. His Majesty was brought to Dover on the British destroyer Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King...
...drably respectable Brown's Hotel on Dover Street, London, sat dapper, bemonocled George II, by the Grace of God King of the Hellenes last week. The Hellenes had voted him back onto the Greek Throne from which they drove him twelve years ago. All Greek elections are conducted with terrorist methods and the latest plebiscite was no exception. As a voter one could drop into the ballot box a blue vote for George II and please General George Kondylis, the Dictator who is bringing him back to Athens, or one could cast a red ballot for the Republic...
...failed to run back for a touchdown, he became exasperated, had the ball kicked off again. The Brunswick Hotel, baseball headquarters was near Boston University. Cochrane met the players who stayed there, decided it was a pleasant way to live. He joined the Saranac Lake team in 1923. Dover, in the Eastern Shore League, bought him and got rich by selling him to Portland, Ore. for $15,000. From Portland, Cochrane went to the Athletics. Experts generally considered him the spark plug of the team with which Connie Mack won the pennant three times...
Purpose of the trip was to demonstrate an invention that used charcoal instead of gasoline for fuel. By the time Dover was reached the charcoal burner, a five-foot stove that steamed and sizzled on the running board, had been abandoned. Colonel Christmas of the Indian Civil Service had organized the trip because he made a point of never returning to India over a route he had traveled before. Now his leave was almost up and delays drove him frantic. Absentminded, he once crawled under his car to work on it, fell sound asleep. He drove with fierce intensity, getting...