Word: halifax
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...British and American seamen the towering, gaunt Ambassador from Britain, Lord Halifax, played host at the embassy, rallied around a piano, hoisting a glass, with a good song ringing clear...
...been held at the White House to plan a tremendous expansion in worldwide air routes, try to iron out some of the grave questions which have U.S. airline operators in a tailspin. Besides President Roosevelt the conferees included members of the Pacific War Council (with tall, gaunt Lord Halifax representing Britain), top-drawer officials from the State Department and the Army-Navy air-cargo divisions, a handful of U.S. airline operators, headed by smart, suave Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe...
Once, in the old dead days of the isolationist debate, Britain's devout Lord Halifax stopped to chat with an American mother picketing his hotel with an anti-war banner. He listened gravely to her story of her nine sons, said quietly: "I, too, have sons," shook hands, walked...
...killed in Egypt last November. The U.S. would never have known, save for dispatches from London. Nor could anyone who met the British Ambassador last week, or worked with him at the Embassy, or watched him listen to the President's speech to Congress, have guessed that Lord Halifax had just learned that his youngest son, Lieut. Richard Frederick Wood, 22, had lost both legs when wounded by a Nazi bomb in Libya...
...their pallor and their oily hands, to be U-boat engineers executed for a breach of discipline. The square-rigger has been shelled into half-ruin and her Captain Skalder, whose curses fall "like bars of iron" through his great red block of beard, says he is bound for Halifax with a cargo of rum. But Bannon notices that the shell wounds were made with axes and he suspects the cargo...