Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down the gangplank of the Aquitania with a message: "All over France I found Pilsener at 12½ ?a glass, and ice cold, too." Capt. Robert Dollar, 84-year-old President of the Dollar Steamship Co. (San Francisco), reached New York on the President Van Buren, rested from his fourth trip around the world in five years. Newsgatherers told him his line will equip its new ships with airplanes. He wagged his square white beard with approval. "It's a nice idea," he grunted, "for people in a hurry. I have never ridden in an airplane...
...francs (40?) for "handling and filing" divorce papers; but he was gravely accused of accepting as much as 20 or even 25 francs (80? or $1) as an illegal fee or bribe for "expediting" the papers. Piteously M. Le Registrar Chipot plead that when the franc declined to one fourth its pre-War value, "it became customary for us poor registrars to accept whatever fees were offered." The 119 judges, touched by this appeal, suspended Registrar Chipot for two months only, then adjusted his suspension to fall exactly within the two months annual vacation of the Court, at which time...
...Zealand, who had never before been knocked out by a man's fist. He was beaten, that night last week at the Yankee Stadium, by terrific punches to his heart, by jabs and hooks which made a bloody mush of his nose and left eye. From the fourth to the tenth round, "The Hard Rock from Downunder" was being chewed. And then his jaw, game and unchewed, received a blow which caused the heavy sound upon the canvas of a falling body. Several seconds passed and what was left of Heeney remained almost motionless. Then the gong rang, ending...
Prince George, fourth son of Britain's George V, was assigned to the war boat Durban, last week, as "an interpreter in French." George V, the second son of Edward VII, was merely commander of H. M. S. Melampus when the death of his elder brother, now known as the Duke of Clarence, made him Prince of Wales, later King-Emperor...
Meanwhile, off Sandhamn, Sweden, Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan sailed H. B. Plant's Saleema to win the first of a series of international six-metre yacht races for the Scandinavian Gold Cup. Close was the finish, with a Dutch boat second, a Finnish third, a Swedish fourth...