Word: ile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ile de France, carrying 1,777 passengers (400 more than her normal capacity), docked safe & sound after following a secret course with portholes blackened and blue bulbs burning dimly on deck. Her officers denied, her jittery passengers swore that they had spotted German U-boats. Café Socialite Grand Duchess Marie, delighted to be alive, took up a purse of $2,500 for the crew...
...Canada's Atlantic pride, the Empress of Britain, is indeed roomy but emphatically not old. In her classification of express liner (the top classification), only four Atlantic liners are newer-built and two of them are newer by only one year. She is newer than the Bremen, Europa, Ile de France. The Empress of Britain has such ultra-new luxuries as snip-to-shore telephones in her roomy apartments, full-sized tennis and squash courts, private baths with 70% of cabin-class rooms. She holds the record for the fastest land-to-land crossing of the Atlantic...
...prisoners in the colony 4,500 never leave the mainland. If the convict is considered incorrigibly dangerous, however, he may be sent to one of the Iles du Salut, high, rocky, mile-long Ile Royale, and there set at hard labor, perhaps even put in an isolated pit. If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph. If he has been convicted of treason, he will probably be sent to live in a hut on the most famous of this trio of islands-the 34-acre, bleak Il du Diable, or Devil...
...next item is a recent addition to the Museum's collection of Romanesque sculpture, a wooden statue of the 12th century. It is an altar figure of the Virgin and Child and it probably comes from the region of the Ile de France...
...which washed out old claims. As soon as that went into effect Oilman Pat Daugherty, who learned about leasing in Texas, hopped into his big old Cadillac, turned up the road to Kettleman, staked out nearly four square miles identical with Ochsner's old claims. He offered to ile them in Ochsner's name in return for a 10% interest, which was legitimate practice, Daugherty knowing land office ropes which Ochsner did not. Indeed, Ochsner tried to file his own claims-after looking at Daugherty's papers-but the land office found them so irregular that...