Word: leviathan
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During August President Coolidge's somewhat threadbare affection for the Shipping Board frayed into open annoyance at assertions by its members that the Coolidge economy plan would force the permanent dry-docking of the Leviathan and other unwelcome marine curtailments. With the coming of September the Chief Executive's resentment crystalized and ripped into the open with the following telegram to B. E. Haney, a member of the Board...
...fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom...
...ultimatum philosophically. The Board itself, more volatile, was expected to be less resigned, more irate at the reduction. The form that the first protest of the Board took was a statement by Chairman O'Connor that, if General Lord's allowance were not increased, the Leviathan would probably have to retire from service...
...remainder of this leviathan is filled with yatching notes, pictures, fashion news, theatrical briefs, jokes, and advertisements, which rival those of Vanity Fair...
...Pawnee, sleek yacht of Henry Payne Bingham of Manhattan. On her decks were bucket-mouthed, serpentine fish, a sea-cow, glass sponges, monster iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged, batlike monster" had escaped...