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Seamen explained, to landlubbers, last week, that a captain turns over the management of his ship to the commander and when an admiral comes on board, the captain then becoming (to use a military simile) the admiral's chief of staff. Ordinarily the possibilities of friction which lurk in such an interlocked command are smoothed over by the formulae of tradition. Last week, however, the captain and commander of the Royal Oak were understood to have filed complaints with the Admiralty alleging that Rear Admiral Collars had grossly and persistently overstepped the bounds of his authority and shamefully browbeaten...
...Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, on his way to St. Louis to talk with Colonel Lindbergh, said: "Lindbergh has performed feats of vast consequence to our nation. . . . But his task is finished. There is no need for him further to expose himself to the dangers that manifestly lurk in his path...
...revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without the restraint which our civilization acquires before a high spirit may be appreciated. His all-absorbing passion for Russia, however, his desire for her good over that of any party, his blind devotion to what he believes to be right...
...York, Erika and Klaus Mann, noted Germans who are actively interested in the international youth movement, told a CRIMSON reporter that "the main purpose of the movement is to bring the youth of today into the foreground in the eyes of the elder generation, and not to have it lurk in the background as a force that may be of importance when it grows up. Mr. and Miss Mann will speak on "The Situation of the Young European" at 8 o'clock this evening in Emerson...
...state the files were blessed with a certain system and order; after a day of handling, however, they are reduced to woeful complexity. Only those courses ending at the midyear are guaranteed the safe haven of being bound in book form. The others, the whole courses, are destined to lurk unseen or at any rate unfond in a maze of un-alphabetized sheets...