Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minor, a post which he had obtained by intrigue and managed to hold for only about a year. Ousted, he began to conspire with the likewise disgruntled General Kondylis (exiled last week) and with Admiral Hadjikyriakos (his present silent partner in dictatorship). In 1922, the three were about to launch a coup d'état, when two other discontented officers, Colonels Plastiras and Gonatas, got ahead of them. The adroit colonels sprang a coup of their own; sprang it first; sent King Constantine packing for the last time* acknowledged his eldest son, George II, as their King; and proceeded...
...calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore at Cape Town while the Ohio was dry-docked. Seizing rare opportunity, a correspondent wrote: "Like a crowd of ghosts the sailors lowered the landing launch. They suddenly stopped when the machinery made some squeaks. The officers rushed forward with oil cans...
...seemed a shame to hamper the abilities of Marie Prevost with a slap-stick story and a crazy continuity. In her own particular field, which is domestic farce, Miss Prevost is without a superior. But what price pug-nose and winsome and sophisticated smile in a steam launch beset by gangsters? Mr. Kenneth Harlan, her out-of-movie husband, saw her through most solicitously. Otherwise she was in very bad company...
...University Instrumental Clubs will launch the first Christmas southern trip of its history immediately after Christmas this year, the management announced last night...
...many years liners have used oil to heat the steam that drives the propeller, but the Gripsholm is the first big boat to be propelled directly by crude oil as a launch is propelled by petrol...