Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carolinians were sure that the President appreciated his invitation to a mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain, near Asheville. Georgians talked of offering an island estate off their coast. Senators McKellar and Tyson of Tennessee called and offered the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pound of Chattanooga, on historic Lookout Mountain. Governor Byrd of Virginia and small Boiling Byrd Flood, son of the late Representative Henry D. Flood of Virginia, and C. Bascom Slemp, the President's oldtime (1923-25) private secretary, called and offered the Swannanoa Country Club, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, only four hours from Washington...
There was one figure in the war who received but little publicity a year or so ago--and this was despite the fact that he had the whole Allied forces on the lookout for his mystery ship during the early months of 1917. Count von Luckner remains one of the romantic figures of the war. Though he sank nearly a score of Allied ships, and, what is more remarkable still, though he killed not one man during the course of these sinkings, it remained for his biography by Lowell Thomas to interest the public in his remarkable story...
...Summing up, Navy men blamed Coast Guardsmen, who blamed Navy men, for the collision in which either a) the destroyer Paulding, scouting at top speed for rum-boats, gored the rising submarine 54, or b) the S-4 "ran into the Paulding." Evidence showed: that the Paulding's inexperienced lookout had mistaken the S-4's splashing periscope for a fishnet buoy; that the Navy had not notified the Coast Guard that submarines were operating on the Provincetown trial course. With regard to the failure to rescue S-4 survivors, the most notable evidence brought out was that the officers...
WANTED, by the New York Symphony -a conductor. For three seasons now, since Walter Damrosch first hinted that his days of active service were numbered, Manhattan has known the New York Symphony Society to be on the lookout for a new and permanent conductor. The German Otto Klemperer (Wiesbaden) was imported for two seasons, tried and found wanting. So was the German Fritz Busch (Dresden) who just completed a trial term of nearly three months. Not for some time, in fact, has anything akin to satisfaction prevailed at a New York Symphony concert until last week. Then Ossip Gabrilowitsch, borrowed...
Returning from Provincetown, Secretary Wilbur said: "It is the business of the submarine to be on the lookout for and immediately sight surface vessels. Therein lies their whole offensive strength. If they can't protect themselves in peace time from surface vessels which are unaware of their whereabouts, well?...