Word: embarkation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served for the benefit of the Duke and Duchess of York. On the morrow they were to embark aboard H. M. S. Renown to visit Australia and there open the new Parliament Buildings at Canberra.±I In their absence Queen Mary will care for "Baby Betty"** (Princess Elizabeth) their eight-months-old daughter...
Meanwhile the third British light cruiser squadron and the fourth destroyer flotilla steamed for China from Malta. At Gibraltar a battalion of the Suffolk regiment prepared to embark for China on Jan. 2. Finally the womenfolk and children of British soldiers stationed in the interior of China were ordered last week to return to England. These measures, the War Office suavely explained, were designed to prevent a situation from arising in which His Majesty's Government might have to take military action in China to protect British lives and property...
Silas Hardy Strawn, shrewd Chicago lawyer, for more than a year U. S. representative at the Chinese Extraterritoriality Conference in Peking (TIME, Aug. 31, 1925, et seq.) packed his bags last week and prepared to embark for the U. S., as the Conference broke...
...Morgan loan has been repeatedly declared "untouched" by the French Government. Naturally its use last week?if it was used?was carefully concealed lest speculators gain an inkling of the extent to which the Government is prepared to embark upon salvage operations...
...Nine to Embark Tonight...