Word: exilona
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...White Star liners end in ic and Cunarders in ia, so ships of the American Export Lines begin in Ex (Executive, Exochorda, Excalibur). Last week one of them sloshed her way up to Smyrna. The Exilona was going to bring an ex-tycoon home from exile: the U. S. Government had won its long battle to bring Samuel Insull back for trial...
...young man, are my custodian." said Samuel Insull smiling as he shook hands with Burton Y. Berry, third secretary of the U. S. Embassy, in the cabin of the Exilona's captain. Still smiling he turned to Police Commissioner Nail Bey and said, "If I ever come to Turkey again I will look you up. I hope you will have no official reason to look me up." Then young Mr. Berry signed a receipt for the person of Samuel Insull and the Turks, bowing, departed...
Next day as the Exilona was sloshing across the Aegean, Samuel Insull sat down in the saloon with his custodian, began to see the advantages of eating American meals in the company of Americans. Growing expansive over a sandwich he told tales of strange and unusual hardships among Turks and Greeks. To a passenger who laughingly remarked, "I would trade my money for yours," he retorted, "That's the greatest insult you could cast on me. I have repeatedly said I have sunk everything I had in my business and that's the truth." Once he grew gruff...
Aboard S. S. Exilona, April 19--Samuel Insull sailed for Casablanca, Morocco, at 8.40 P. M. tonight aboard this American freighter, carrying him back to America for trial on charges of fraud...
...Morrow was called in from a nearby golf course. The Senator's sisters, Miss Alice Morrow and Mrs. Agnes Morrow Scandrett, were about to sail for Istanbul that afternoon on the American Export liner Exilona. They rushed to Englewood hastily. Other members of the extensive Morrow family were summoned. Mrs. Morrow herself sent a radiogram to Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh in China...