Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worse, much more shocking to the socialite school and to that well-beloved dean of U. S. schoolmasters, Headmaster Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, were the events of the following October. In the boathouse on the nearby Nashua River was found the crew coach's launch, a gaping hole in its side. In the chapel choir room was heard miaowing, tinkling a cat was shut up in the piano. Chapel memorials to deceased worthies were ink-spattered, mutilated. A crucifix was found in bushes near the chapel: it had been torn from its niche, tossed through a window...
...wife and child were killed in Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents. His attempt to murder Herod in revenge failed; by a series of lucky accidents he escaped into the desert to friendly Arabs. But he had become a man of fixed idea, and only bided his time to launch a rebellion against Herod and the eRomans who kept him in power. Then he met Rongus, a young Jew who had been sold into slavery by a mercenary uncle. Too high-spirited for his own health, Rongus defied a Roman officer and was about to be tortured to death when...
...little Paraguay the blow was staggering. She has exported her "tea" (yerba mate) almost exclusively to Argentina. Other nations do not like it. Last year a campaign to launch Paraguay tea in New York as "a new drink with a.new kick" petered out. The brew is not alcoholic. Aghast last week, Paraguayan statesmen realized that whereas Paraguay has been accustomed to drink two-thirds of her tea she may now have to drink...
...round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans judged that enough of the Commonwealth's money had been blown away, sent a motor launch bobbing over the waves to sink the Torrens with a prosaic charge of good, reliable dynamite...
...beach of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams' Cohasset, Mass. estate, Coast Guardsmen last week surprised rum-runners landing 600 cases of liquor worth $150,000. Some of the smugglers escaped into the surrounding marshes, some made out to sea in a swift, silent electric launch...