Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts Senate. His water colors fill an entire room of the Chicago show. There was many a Homer rendering of the thunderous waters of the Maine coast as well as a group of brilliant, placid Bahaman seascapes, faintly reminiscent of one of his most famed works The Gulf Stream, which hangs permanently at the Art Institute...
Foamy bones in their fresh grey teeth, 90 U. S. men-o'-war rolled out of the sunswept Gulf of Gonaives last week, skirted the heat-hazy shores of Haiti, furrowed their way up toward the Atlantic Coast. Far out in the empty sea, bos'ns' whistles suddenly piped all hands to the rails. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished and while junior officers manned bridges with stadimeters to keep the vast armada precisely in line, bands crashed out the national anthem. Twenty-one times gunners tripped the breech blocks of the 6-pounders. These lonely pomps were...
Irving Berlin was celebrating his 25th year as a songwriter by putting on a radio revue, sponsored by Gulf Refining Co. (Sundays 9-9:30 p.m. E. D. S. T.). The latest lyric was to introduce "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "Always," his two favorites. For the five broadcasts there were 100 Berlin songs. Three weeks ago the programs began with a smashing song parade (see box), left millions of listeners marveling not only at Berlin's record for hits but also at the way he has survived the changing fashions. Many an oldtime songwriter can stir...
...last to admit it. But the two are reconciled. When time allows they have dinner together once a week. And Grandfather Mackay takes pride in the two Berlin children: Linda Louise, 2; and Mary Ellin, 7, who hears her father's broadcasts on phonograph records because the Gulf Oil programs go on after her bedtime...
Deplore foxy Yahya as she might, Britain was worried. If Yemen falls, only Oman on the Persian Gulf will remain independent territory, and the fame of hard-riding Ibn Saud will blaze high in the Moslem world, not only in British-controlled Aden, Irak and Palestine, but also in the Sudan across the Red Sea. Refueling at Aden, the cruiser Enterprise, one of the fastest in the British navy, tore on toward Hodeida. Word reached British authorities in Aden that among the Saudite loot in Hodeida were great quantities of Italian-made munitions. The Red Sea is only 100 miles...