Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This advertisement, captioned "WHEN BURNSIDES WERE IN BLOOM," came in due course to the attention of Miss Patterson of Milwaukee, a niece of the General. Contending that Colgate & Co. by using her relative's whiskers as a "springboard from which to launch a jocose and humorous sales argument," had obscured the record he won on the battlefield, she took her case to Arnold Furst, Manhattan lawyer. Lawyer Alan Fox will represent Colgate & Co. The two counsels were 'classmates at Yale in 1903, partners in many a college prank...
Margaret Morris will never launch a thousand ships in ancient Greece. She probably thinks ancient Greece can be removed by dry cleaning anyway. But many is the row boat would put to sea to see ankles like hers. The producers of "That's My Baby" knew that too well. They counted the row boats and called for Douglas MacLean to take command. But ankles are after all, especially Miss Morris' very slender supports for a feature film. Aud thus cometh comedy in the guise of a child who attaches himself to Douglas on land, on sea, on foam, and makes...
...Outlook, cruised the Yucatan coast, putting ashore five times in six days to visit Mayan cities unknown to modern history-Xkaret, Paalmul. Chakalal, Actuo, Acomal. Four or five miles apart, they were each discoverable by a small temple seen from the sea, and might be approached in a launch by a creek or canal leading to a lake, lagoon or bay. These cities were on the trade route between northern Yucatan and Mayan centres in lower Central America, particularly Guatemala. Like Dr. Gann, the Mason-Spinden expedition found some of the ancient shrines still in use by Indian hunters...
...crews have not been definitely made up as yet, but the crews that launch shells tomorrow are supposedly the three best 150 pounders. One of the former, Crew O, stroked by C. M. Norton, stroke and captain of last year's Groton boatmen, has the astounding average of 190 pounds for its eight men and an average height of six feet four inches...
...ominous than the decline of the franc, is the news that a Fascist movement is underway in Germany. Taking advantage of the anti-administration reaction to the Genevan disappointment, Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, through the influential medium of the Telegraph Union, a news syndicate which he controls, is about to launch a nation-wide campaign to promote the establishment of a dictatorship, Meanwhile he hopes to win over the various anti-republican factions to his standard, thus forming a powerful organization corresponding to the black shirted myrmidons of Mussolini...