Word: lineral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrance to Havana Harbor stands a grey 300-year-old fortress called Morro Castle. On the sandy beach at Asbury Park, N. J. last week lay the smoking, fire-gutted, heat-wracked cadaver of a liner named after the fortress. Between Morro Castle and Asbury Park the Morro Castle passed through a maritime horror unequalled since the Vestris went down off the Virginia Capes (TIME...
Last June Mrs. James Roosevelt, 79-year-old mother of the President, sailed from New York for a European holiday aboard the German liner Europa. Last week it was the French liner Ile de France that brought her back to the U. S. With her she brought from Aberdeenshire four yards of Scotch tweed as a present for her son to have a suit made from. Said she: "The cloth was very reasonable. I don't think it cost as much as £5. I do hope my son will have it made up, although Washington is hardly the place...
...Sept. 26, Queen Mary is to swing a bottle at the vast bulk of Cunard-White Star's new liner No. 534. Last week ship- yard officials thought they could find a safe bottle of low pressure champagne but said that if unfavorable winds hold back the tide on the appointed day there may not be enough water in the Clyde to launch their monster. Launching or no launching. Queen Mary, resolute as King Canute, planned last week to crack her bottle on Sept. 26, will cry "I christen thee Victoria...
...travelled from his hometown Pottsville, Pa. Journal to the Paramount studios in Hollywood. He has contributed stories to The New Yorker, Scrib- ner's, Vanity Fair. "In addition," he says, "I have jerked soda, worked on two railroads and in a steel mill, on an ocean liner and a farm . . . bummed east and west, was a day laborer. I was married once. ..." Appointment in Samarra is his first novel. A volume of his short stories, The Doctor's Son, will be published this autumn...
Canada's rich, pious and paunchy Premier Richard Bedford Bennett sped to Quebec as the trig little liner Duchess of Richmond steamed in from Liverpool. Aboard was the Prime Minister of Great Britain, James Ramsay MacDonald, and his Housekeeper-Daughter Ishbel, on a three-month Canadian vacation. Whisked off by Premier Bennett, silver-haired, 67-year-old Scot MacDonald was soon sailing across the Bay of Fundy, driving up to a tiny cottage in Digby for the rest which eye-strain has imposed on him. As Ishbel sent out for more vases to hold the flowers which Digby...