Word: lusitania
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victim's name. "So eine Schweinerei!" he exploded: "Warum fährt der aber auch abgeblendet?" (What a mess! But why was she blacked out?) The British called it murder. Goebbels screamed that the villain Churchill had ordered Athenia sunk by British forces, to make a new Lusitania incident and drag the U.S. again into...
...amiable boating scene Jour d'Eté (Summer Day) by Berthe Morisot. A will drawn in 1913 by Sir Hugh, then director of Ireland's National Gallery, left the pictures to England. But before he went to his death aboard the torpedoed Lusitania off Cork in 1915, Sir Hugh added a codicil to his will giving the pictures to Ireland, provided that it built a suitable gallery for them within five years. The codicil was not witnessed, so it had no legal validity. But from the moment of Sir Hugh's death, the Irish began pressing their...
Precious Things. On the eve of World War I, the twinkle of her star began to fade. Frohman went to his death on the Lusitania. Barrie wrote no more plays for her. There were a few revivals, one or two new plays, a radio program or two. She spent a year in General Electric's laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y., experimenting with new ideas on stage lighting. For five years she taught drama at Missouri's Stephens College. She even tried lecturing (said she in Manhattan's Town Hall in 1939: "Emotions are the nicest things we have...
...mark of 3 days 20 hr. 42 min. set in 1938 by the Cunard liner Queen Mary on the run between Ambrose Lightship and Bishop Rock on the southwest coast of England. But merely nibbling an hour or so off the record would mean little. Ships like the Lusitania and the old Mauretania had guaranteed a 4½day crossing in the early 1900s. The Normandie and the two British Queens had cut it to four days in the 1930s. If she was worth the toil, treasure and time it had taken to build her, the United States...
...yourself articles had Popular Mechanics readers constructing their own "gliding machine." Three years later, after polling 1,000 scientists, the magazine listed the Seven Wonders of the Modern World: "wireless, telephone, aeroplane, radium, antiseptics and antitoxins, spectrum analysis, X ray." In 1915, scientific concern over the vulnerability of the Lusitania was balanced by illustrations of such bright little items as a treadmill for figure-conscious opera stars...