Word: fogbound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alongside a dock hard by Britain's Royal Naval College in fogbound Dartmouth, the strangest ship in the world is being fitted out this week for a series of voyages that are to take her, within the next few years, to many an out-of-the-way corner of the seas. She is the Royal Research Ship Research, a trim 770-ton brigantine. Chief job of naval and civilian scientists, to be quartered in her midships, will be to chart magnetic variations, compare their readings with those taken by the Carnegie Institution's Carnegie before she blew...
Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
With London's airport fogbound last week British Foreign Secretary "Flying Sam" Hoare left for Paris by train & boat instead of plane. Ninety minutes after his arrival Sir Samuel was closeted with Premier Pierre Laval and the permanent experts who make British and French foreign policy, Sir Robert Vansittart and M. Alexis Leger, plus their sub-experts on Ethiopia, Mr. Maurice Peterson and Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. The tension and excitement were terrific. Upon the table lay in draft form on crisp sheets "The Deal...
...encountered various brands of dirty weather. Of 24 members of the Amateur Air Pilots' Association who left Long Island Aviation Country Club in cavalcade three days before the meet began, only two?George Mallory Pynchon Jr. and Paula Lind? arrived on the opening day. The others were scattered, fogbound, between Sarasota, Fla. and Richmond, Va. Twenty attack planes from Fort Crockett, Tex., were still at Tallahassee on the second day of the races. A Boiling Field contingent was turned back by fog over South Carolina, When better weather seemed likely the races were extended an extra day to permit weather...
Feverish bustle, anxious conjecture filled Buckingham Palace on election day this week. Outside, London wallowed in a yellow pea-soup fog. Below stairs, Royal scullery, parlor and chamber maids made no secret of their voting intentions as they hustled into bonnet and wrap, groped in a body out the fogbound back gate. Two footmen, the Palace womenfolk considered, were the only possible waverers. They had expressed Socialist opinions at the height of a servants' ball last year, but not since. One of these very footmen brought to the Royal study the latest newspapers for which George V repeatedly buzzed...