Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hongkong, a Fairy 3-F seaplane with three Royal Air Force officers aboard became unmanageable in the air directly above the aircraft carrier H. M. S. Hermes. Plunging down like a plummet it tore a hole in the Hermes' flying deck, burst into flames and then rolled overboard into the sea. By smart work with a boat-hook the dead body of Flying Officer A. W. Hale was recovered before it sank; but divers had to go down after what remained of Air Lieutenant J. H. Graham and Telegraphist Stanley Jackson...
...Loveday buccaneered through garish London night life, dipped her black flag to Charles-"formal, formidable, fastidious," to which descriptive f's Loveday later added "fatuous, fulsome," because of his devotion to a silly mother, self-styled "Petal." Bankrupt, Pirate Loveday shipped for foreign parts as partner to a professional dancer. In Budapest he attempted his own interpretation of "keeping company," but Loveday "whooshed"' off to London, on the "wadge" of kronen which a Hungarian tart pulled generously out of her stocking...
...Marquis de la Seigliere, the leading part in the play will be taken by M. Ernest Perrin. Destournelles will be taken by W. B. Cowen, Jr., '30, Bernard Stampley by E. P. Etling '29, Raoul de Vaubert by F. G. Shaw, Jr., '31, Jasmin by W. D. Carter '31, La Baronne de Vaubert by Elizabeth Lyman, and Helene by Alison Hardy...
...expense of F. J. La Fleur, captain of the Princeton team, the Crimson captain, F. R. G. Chevalier '29, winner of the individual championship last year, won on the first board, by the use of a strong offensive. Chevalier scored after 36 moves...
...Robinson '31 was defeated on the second board by J. C. Coatman of Princeton, G. F. Gravell '28 sent Harvard into the lead with a win over J. C. Webster in a Vienna opening which went to 39 moves, and F. N. Rich '29, and S. Emery of the Tigers after emerging from a Scotch opening in which Emery had the white side, adjourned their game evenly matched...