Word: hood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Highland coast near Nigg last week heard the leashed rumble of heavy turbine engines coming near them off Cromarty Firth. Soon they saw looming out of the barley soup fog the towering grey flank of the world's biggest fighting ship, the $30,000,000 British battle cruiser Hood. What followed jolted the Highlanders out of their wits. The Hood's davits suddenly swung launches filled with marines over the side. The launches sped into shallow water. Holding their rifles high, the marines jumped into the surf, ran up the beach toward a party of British tars camped...
...Highlanders it looked as if the Hood had crushed a mutiny...
Soon the shocking word flew through Scotland, through England: a mutiny of enlisted men on the Hood! Everyone remembered that the September mutiny two years ago broke out while the Atlantic fleet was stationed near Invergordon, a few miles from Nigg (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Stiffly Sir Bolton Eyres-Mon-sell, First Lord of the Admiralty, arched his right eyebrow a little higher with a denial. He said that certain maneuvers in the North Sea whither the Hood was bound had been postponed because of "heavy gales." At the Admiralty offices in London, the duty officer in command refused...
...which mean "water," "margins," "novel." In the 13th Century, in the reign of Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men, fugitives from society, took refuge, set up a robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their ears are accustomed to the Chinese tone, reassuringly universal. There are surprisingly...
Died. Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, 62, longtime White House majordomo; of heart failure; in Washington...