Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week speed cost England dearly. Late one night, a few days after his return from Kut, where he had officially dedicated a 1,615-foot dam which will irrigate the now-dreary site of the Garden of Eden, Ghazi set out from the royal palace in Bagdad in an open sports car. He was on his way to Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took...
...Published with the approving Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur of the Catholic diocese of Southwark, England, was At Your Ease in the Catholic Church, by Mary Perkins.* This work not only deals with manners in church but tells how to address a Cardinal, archbishop, bishop; what to give a priest or an ordinand as a present (a check is proper); when a Catholic may break rules against meat eating (example: a dinner where abstinence would embarrass the host); how a Catholic may best argue birth control, Communism, etc., with a non-Catholic. Excerpts...
...marbles for which England is most famed are the Elgin marbles, a collection of Greek sculptures which Lord Elgin plucked from the Parthenon at Athens in the early 19th Century, now one of the most noteworthy possessions of the British Museum. To the natives of the little village of Tinsley Green, however, the Elgin marbles are nothing at all. The marbles they talk about are the lively glassies and marididdles that determine the annual marbles championship of England, oldest sporting event in the Kingdom. Through 18 reigns, since a day in 1588 when two village Hodges played for the favors...
With no fuss or feathers, Pan American Airways sent one of its new 74-passenger Boeing Clippers across to England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...
This week the Clipper lay at her moorings at Southampton, England, ready for the return flight. Purpose of the trip, which may be the last before Pan-Am begins regular service to Europe this summer : to check technical facilities, including radio direction-finding equipment at Lisbon and Marseille...