Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fleet of 18 shells which has been practicing on the Charles River for the past two days will soon be augmented by a number of boats manned by Freshmen having their first crew experience this fall. The Leviathan has been taking several trips each afternoon under the direction of Coach H. H. Haines and the green oarsmen will be shipped in shells as soon as they have mastered the fundamentals...
...Leviathan. London barbers grumbled about "foreign labor." When Barber Arico reached London, he found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour...
...William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than $1 per hair for what he has left...
Capt. Harold A. Cunningham navigated the S. S. Leviathan westward from Cherbourg with a record-breaking number of passengers aboard (2,730). With millionaires bunking with the crew, dowagers traveling third class, Captain Cunningham wired a berth-seeking friend: "Would put you up in my own cabin but every locker is full. Reserving bottom shelf for you next trip...
...Before the Bremen docked, all the jewelry was recovered from the clutches of one Hans Barklage, a shrewd thief in a steward's uniform, wearing a counterfeit steward's badge. Officials suspected Prisoner Barklage of a part in the $100,000 theft last year from mail bags on the Leviathan...