Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will never return to Downing Street alive unless I can bring him. He and I must leave the hotel first and alone, and as soon as we two leave it is to be blown up?the end of the chapter of the 'Strange Affair at the Chequers...
After the War, the irrepressible first mate, Kapitänleutnant Helmuth von Mücke, said that the captains of captured British ships always seemed more anxious about whether they would be allowed to save their supply of whiskey than about anything else. It also seemed to Kap.-Lt. von Mücke that the captains' loyalty to the line employing them was greater than to their country. In several instances, he said, they revealed to him the proximity of ships of competing lines...
Died. Mrs. Lucy Burgess Farnsworth, 63, of Dedham, Mass., mother of the late Henry Farnsworth of the Foreign Legion, first U. S. citizen to die in the World War; in Dedham...
Died. Dr. Charles Euchariste de' Medici Sajous, 76, of Philadelphia, outstanding U. S. ductless gland specialist, occupant of the world's first chair of endocrinology (University of Pennsylvania), scion of French-Flemish nobility, member of the French Academy; of heart disease; in Philadelphia...
Died. Mrs. Murphy, 75, of Manhattan, dowager hippopotamus of the Central Park zoo, first of her species to enter the U. S. (1880), relict of Caliph I, mother of Caliph II; of indigestion and senility; in Manhattan. Her teeth and appetite had worn away. Her last meal was a meagre 60 Ibs. of chopped hay, 30 qts. of mash...