Word: ens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Puff-PUFF!" went the engine of Their Majesties' royal train last week, as able Scotch engineer, Mortimer Glendower, tested his locomotive preparatory to the imperial summer jaunt. During the last of August His Majesty will hunt in Yorkshire, will spend September en famille at Balmoral Castle, famed Scotch rustication ground of "Dear Albert" and Victoria...
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, was en route to Russia aboard H. M. S. Hampshire on June 5, 1916. So much and no more the world knows of Kitchener. Why the Hampshire sank is not positively known, though conclusive evidence has been adduced to show that she sank as a result of the explosion of a submarine mine. Because so little is known, or because there is so little to know of the presumptive death by drowning of Lord Kitchener, the press has been flooded with recurrent rumors that: a) He was seen in an open...
...apologies!" said Albert, King of Belgians, and let in the royal clutch, "you did right to stop me. Mais je suis un peu en retard. I must hurry. I am late for work. Au revoir...
...Edsel, called on President Coolidge in the Adirondacks, laden with photographs and sheets of statistics, to report what progress the emperor of the highways had made in his conquest of the air. First of all, Edsel Ford explained the ship† that is to be standardized and produced, en masse, at Detroit. No air "jitney," it is a large ship, designed for commercial uses. It is an all-metal monoplane with three Wright-Whirlwind motors. It can carry a ton of freight, operating at a cost of 13.8 cents a mile. Its cruising radius is 2,500 miles...
...Stefansson, who pressed a stopwatch as he burst into congratulations to the two for having circled the globe in 28 days, 14 hrs., 36 min., 5 sec.-a week or so faster than a circummundane trip made by Newspaperman John Henry Mears in 1913. Mears had spent only $836 en route. The new champions-Millionaire Edward S. Evans of Detroit and Newspaperman Linton O. Wells of Manhattan-had spent about $25,000 to go 20,100 mi. in crack steamers, tearing trains, rocketing automobiles, whizzing airplanes. Said Millionaire Evans...