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Captain Lawry signed on a new cook, one Earl Battice, Mississippi mulatto. With Mr. Battice came Mrs. Battice, wife. Mr. Battice insisted on having her along. The Kingsway, full of fate, started across the torrid Atlantic...
With the crew of the Kingsway, however, Mrs. Battice was not so unpopular. Bough, tough, deep-water tars though they were, they had to admit that her feminine touch made the ship more homelike. Waldemar Karl Badke, towheaded German, "donkeyman,"* got on especially well with her. Every one aboard, including Mr. Battice, knew that they were great friends. Mrs. Battice even drew the fact to her husband's attention, one day when Africa was still many dawns beyond the hot horizon. Mr. Battice strolled on deck to ask a shipmate for the loan of a razor...
...country to drink is packed not only by Lipton, but by Tetley, Salada, McCormick, Atlantic & Pacific, American Stores, Tao and every leading packer of tea. If you will be so kind as to ask your business office to start sending me your paper to Sir Charles Higham, Imperial House, Kingsway, London, England A check for six guineas will be sent by post to this country. Kindly address me personally. C. F. HIGHAM...
...Lloyd George's automobile sped toward Kingsway Hall, Lon, where 1,500 delegates of his party (Liberal) were assembling to decide whether they would support his well-advertised Land Tenure Reform scheme (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). Mr. George's motor accidentally crashed into one of the stanchions of the hall, stopped. Mr. George stepped out of the wreckage, entered the hall...