Word: doves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Night Watch. Billie Dove takes the stand in defense of her husband, Paul Lukas, murder suspect and captain of a French battleship. Who killed Nicholas Soussanin, young lieutenant found dead on board the cruiser by the Admiralty committee that came to congratulate the Captain for sinking the Istria? Out of Billie Dove's testimony the story flows in retake with dignity and pictorial effectiveness - the night the War began when the officers' wives came on board for dinner and Billie Dove, delayed by the importunities of a onetime suitor, one of the officers, was caught on board...
...gain by reacquiring the world's friendship. The way was long from the tales of grue some that made the from pages of 1918 hideous is the acclaim that the Bremen's heroine crew has won in 1928. Whatever Germany's time in doffing her cuirass and carrying a dove on her wrist, she has succeeded beyond cavil in regaining a position of honor and trust among the nations. She has honestly endeavored to sustain a balance of concord in the world; and while other powers equivocate on treaties of peace, she has steadfastly backed them. One does not need...
DEBONAIR-G. B. Stern-Knopf ($2.50). Twittering, dove-colored, Mrs. Trevelyan welcomes her daughter, Loveday, back to their little haven on the Italian Riviera, and would so gladly "forgive and forget" if only she would confide...
...Panama, where Peace-Dove Lindbergh sprinkled goodwill three months ago, the War Department's two chief eagles-Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison and Major-General James E. Fechet, Chief of Army Air Corps-last month flew to inspect the Canal's defenses...
Nevertheless, Eagles Davison and Fechet recommended doubling Panama's air defenses. Perhaps to hasten the passage of appropriations, they abandoned their plan to fly home along Peace-Dove Lindbergh's route through the Antilles. They returned as they had gone down, in long hops of their Loening amphibians to Managua, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Brownsville, Washington...