Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find that she, too, loves Starwick. His disappointment, coupled with a suspicion that his friend is not as manly as he might be, leads to a final quarrel. The quartet breaks up, Eugene adventures for a time by himself, finally decides to go home. As he boards the liner at Cherbourg he sees a face, hears a voice, that he knows will haunt him forever. Here the book ends...
...During its trip to San Francisco and back the Panama-Pacific Liner Pennsylvania logged the following incidents: Her surgeon died of a stroke. The engine-room storekeeper died of pneumonia. Both were buried at sea. Brooding because the boatswain had taken his bedroom slippers, the ship's lookout fell 40 ft. from the crow's nest, arose unharmed. A 40-ft. whale became so firmly impaled on the Pennsylvania's bow that the captain had to put his ship astern to dislodge it. The liner also rushed to the aid of a freighter, took off a wiper...
Author Vanderbilt (now 36) bade a tentative farewell to Fifth Avenue some years ago, when, against the advice and consent of his family, he first tried to become a newshawk and turned out to be a decoy. Like an ocean traveler on a slowly departing liner, he continues to wave good-by long after the shore crowd's handkerchiefs are dry. Farewell to Fifth Avemie rehashes, in pseudo-Northcliffe journalese, the high spots of Author Vanderbilt's career as poor little rich boy. Vanderbilt readers may find it annoying; to non-Vanderbilts it will seem either shocking...
...purchase marked the end of I. M. M.'s foreign-flag shipping. Year ago I. M. M. severed its connection with White Star Line, later sold its Red Star liners Minnetonka and Minnewaska for junk (TIME, Nov. 26). Last month I. M. M. transferred the Red Star liner Belgenland from British to U. S. registry, renamed her Columbia, put her in Panama Pacific Line's New York-Havana cruise service as the biggest (27,000 tons) U. S. ship in active service...
Bound for Florida, Mrs, Alfred Emanuel Smith was standing in a compartment on the Seaboard Air Liner Orange Blossom Special, when the train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go on. Twenty-four hours later, suffering "from a broken arm and nervous shock. Mrs. Smith bedded herself in a West Palm Beach hospital, stayed there four days...