Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...site is Mt. Gretna, a rocky knoll in a remote corner of the reservation which authorities plan to make into a desert without a bush or tree to hide escaping inmates. Most spectacular feature of the prison will be circular walls which will make it look like a fortress, be cheaper to build, more efficient and stronger than straight walls...
...more nearly that of a cathedral than of a club. Founded in 1815 by London yachtsmen "to promote seamanship and the improvement of sailing vessels," it has 250 members (including 19 women) who cheerfully pay 100 guineas entrance fee, 100 guineas a year, has headquarters in a turreted fortress built by Henry VIII, later used as a state prison. Rigidly hostile to "trade," the Squadron refused to admit the late Sir Thomas Lipton (tea) even though he had been proposed at the request of King Edward VII, had spent a fortune trying to win the America...
...most interesting of the new Army planes is a gigantic Boeing scheduled for first test flights this week at Seattle. A four-motored, mid-wing monoplane of lines similar to the famed Boeing "flying fortress" launched two years ago, of which the Army ordered 13 at a reputed $196,000 each, the new bomber is much bigger, much more efficient. The new Boeing is reported to weigh 20 tons, have a speed above 250 m.p.h. with eight tons of bombs...
...southern Spain, 80 miles from the Portuguese frontier, 1,500 Rightists who eight months ago shut themselves up in the Sanctuary of the Virgin, a convent atop Mount Cabeza, last week scaled the granite walls of their fortress to escape. They were fleeing not from the Leftist siege but from two officers of their own side, Captain Cortes and Lieutenant Ruano, who had set up a rule of military terror in the convent, throwing into musty cells the starved and sick who wanted to surrender. During the siege, 21 children were born in the Virgin's Sanctuary...
...Colonel Green spent more & more time away from Texas tending to his own scattered financial interests and those of his mother. In 1917, after his mother's death, he married redheaded Mabel Harlow, two years his junior, and long his close friend, in Chicago, and then built a fortress-like, 100-room mansion on Buzzards Bay at South Dartmouth, Mass. He maintained a palatial retreat on Star Island near Miami Beach and a penthouse atop the swank Sherry-Netherlands Hotel in Manhattan. He was at Lake Placid for his health last June. At the time of his death...