Word: hood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private dollars last year. Up rose Miss Perkins to talk of Labor and Society. Above her head, from behind a U. S. flag on the Theater's facade, peeped a large-lettered plaque: A GIFT OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. When she was done, President Sproul slipped a silken hood over her head, pronounced her a Doctor of Laws. The crowd rose, cheered when he did the same to Herbert Hoover. Then it enveloped the stage, stranded Miss Perkins for ten minutes before President Sproul rushed her bodily to his home for luncheon...
...horrible). The demise of the Watch and Ward Society, and the refusal of all intelligent Bostonians to the censorship of acknowledged literature and art--what a delightful fantasy! One's Imagination conjures up any number of idyllic pictures, ranging from the elimination of the profit motive and the brother hood of man, to devices that will render Boston winters things of the past...
They knew that on the fateful morning of Jan. 23, the Hood and Renown, approximately ten miles apart, were leading parallel columns of cruisers in battle practice off the coast of Spain. At 11:35 a. m. Admiral Bailey, as Commander of the Squadron, ordered from his flagship, the Hood, what the court martial referred to as an "inclination exercise." The ships were to swing together to form a single line of battle, and from the Hood's chartroom Admiral Bailey himself set the course for both ships: 254 degrees for the Hood, 192 degrees for the Renown. Apparently...
...unable to absolve Rear Admiral Sidney Bailey from all blame. He adopted an unusual procedure in directing the Hood and Renown to steer definite courses so close. ... It was incumbent on him at the proper moment to make a further signal to re-form his squadron...
Captain Tower of the Hood, acquitted by the court martial, was also called "not without blame." If he had put his ship on the "projected course," the Renown would have been able to drop safely in behind. Finally last week the Lords of the Admiralty in effect reversed the court martial's conviction of Captain Sawbridge of the Renown. His reduction to half pay was canceled. His sentence was reduced to a mere "reprimand." And in final vindication he was restored to full command of the Renown. Plain as a pikestaff was the fact that if a British admiral...