Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parliament building at Lima. The cruiser Almirante Grau flagship of the Peruvian navy (13 vessels) steamed out to meet the Maryland. U.S. Ambassador-to-Peru, Alexander Pollock Moore had his shoes shined extra-specially and congratulated himself again and again on being where he was in the middle of things as usual...
...Germany still gets some of the huge contracts, where the saving is great, such as Vincent Astor's Nourmahal, flagship of the New York Yacht Club (TIME...
...flagship of the Lithuanian Navy is a chugging, wallowing armed minesweeper, the President Smetona. Last week Lithuanians were shamefaced and vexed when a pirate ship, the Hassan Birr, which has been terrorizing Baltic seacoast villages for over a month, escaped for the eleventh time, after being sighted, fired at and chased by the wallowing President Smetona. Fisherfolk who have been piratically molested by the Hassan Birr describe her crew as a rollicking, unblood-thirsty gang of Finns, Poles, Germans, Swedes led by a fierce red-bearded swashbuckler who claims to be a Lithuanian...
Robert White Lanier, Negro stowaway on PolarPilgrim Byrd's flagship, The City of New York, was the cause of an exulting editorial in the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro newspaper), which said: "Whatever goes on in the world there always seems to be a Negro there" (TIME, Sept...
...When the flagship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, the City of New York, left Manhattan on August 26, it looked as if this would be one trip on which there would be no Negro. But Robert White Lanier, a 20-year-old Negro youth from Brunswick, Ga., via Jersey City, thought differently. He is evidently one of those youths filled with the spirit of adventure, since he had hiked across the continent some time before. At any rate, he concealed himself aboard the City of New York, and was not discovered until the bark was well...