Word: excelsior
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...Halifax went the Cunarder Scythia last week for Liverpool and the Continent. In its hold was a heavy Excelsior limousine whose radiator cap bore the letter A circled by a crown. It was bound for Brussels to take its place in a museum beside other personal relics of the late great Albert of the Belgians...
...Albert. Up to the day of his death he drove his own car whenever possible. In the cellar of the Castle Laeken was a complete machine shop where he loved to putter. In that shop he worked with his own hands on a special bullet-proof body for an Excelsior chassis. Palace attaches delicately hinted that a bullet-proof car was not quite the thing for the pacific, democratic King of the Belgians. It was given to Belgian Banker Alfred Loewenstein, who six years ago mysteriously dropped from the washroom of his airplane while flying over the English Channel...
Into the S. S. Excelsior at Odessa were hoisted two Soviet-made Fords, bound for New York and Dearborn, a gift from the Gorki automobile factory to Henry Ford, a reminder from the Soviet Government that he had sold it his patents...
...owner of an excelsior mill, a cold-storage plant and a road building firm, Senator Thayer maintains he is "just a simple farmer." But: "I did a lot of wandering when I was a young fellow." Shortly after the century's turn, he helped found a small local power company in Chateaugay. About 1925 he and his fellow Chateaugayans sold out to Associated Gas & Electric. "And here's the funny thing," he explained last week. "After we sold out . . . we found that the 20-year franchise had ended in 1923, and we had forgotten all about...
...such smart Roman hotels as the Excelsior and the De Russie guests stared last week as fellow-guests, garbed in black silk mantles with white crosses and long black stoles, marched and countermarched through the lobbies. They were Knights of Malta, gathered together from all over the world in their first general meeting since 1788, to pay their respects to the Pope, Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emanuel, and to make pilgrimages to Rome's four great basilicas in honor of the Holy Year which ends Easter Monday...