Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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New York Times's Charles A. Selden: "A general election before Christmas, probably at the end of next month. . . . The election campaign will consist of maneuvering to win those 11,000,000 voters who went on record this year in the peace ballot referendum in favor of sup porting...
Greatest danger of an incident touching off a European war lay in the daily increasing irritability of Englishmen and Italians as their war boats and trade vessels elbowed each other in the Mediterranean. With the tone of reporting an Italian atrocity, the British steamer Cairo City radioed London papers that...
Mad as the stockbrokers of Throgmorton Street, the officers of the Cairo City relayed a rumor extremely offensive to touchy Italian honor, to wit: "Recently an Italian ship which failed on entering Alexandria to salute British warships was forced to return to the sea and re-enter the port with...
This statement, however, was vigorously denied in all subsequent publications, and the whole incident was hushed up. Professor Lake says that whenever he mentioned the matter to Italians, he was given to understand that it should not be discussed, but considered a deep secret.
Dancing blithely in the languid Caribbean night, late-reveling passengers on the Holland-America liner Rotterdam fortnight ago felt a slight shock, were mildly alarmed to learn that the 24,000-ton cruise-ship had gone aground on tiny Morant Cays, 40 miles southeast of Jamaica. Speedily assured there was...