Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...couldn't leave her at home. When Gladys was five she had a part in which she spoke one line: "Don't speak to her, girls. Her father killed a man." She had played many melodramas before her mother adopted Pickford, her immigrant grandmother's maiden, name, as the family surname and altered Gladys to "Mary." In 1909, D. W. Griffith was looking for someone to play Pippa in Pippa Passes when, having interviewed Mary Pickford, he said, "That girl would be a pip as Pippa." From $40 per week in one-reel Biograph features, she advanced...
...Damage to the Europa-at first believed a total loss-was eventually found, last week, to involve only a $3,000,000 gutting of cabins, salons and gear. The hull was declared sound, and bulkheads with automatic fire doors saved the boilers, turbines and other propelling machinery. On her maiden voyage she would have carried $15,000,000 insurance placed by the N. G. L.; and in her partially completed state she was insured by her builders, Blohm & Voss, for $9,500,000 in the event of total loss. What they can now collect is a matter of "adjustment." They...
...fastest ship in the world is still the Mauretania but with the advent of the Bremen a new speed queen should reign on the Atlantic, at least until 1930. The largest German motor ship, M. S. St. Louis of the Hamburg-American Line, sailed from Hamburg on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, last week, tips the nautical scales at 16,750 tons...
...original engine used by the Catamounts. R. McH. Chilson '31, J. C. Fiske '30, J. B. Garrison '31, E. L. Gates '30, Barrett Hoyt '30, and Pliny Jewell, Jr. '31, who will be garbed in the costumes of the "Fire B' hoys" will pull the engine on its maiden trip...
...Elihu Root left Geneva with Nurse Emily Stewart by limousine for Paris. They expect to sail for the U.S. on the Ile de France, famed as "The Peace Ship" The original Briand Peace Pact proposal was brought to the U.S. by Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick on the maiden voyage of the Ile de France (TIME, July 4, 1927); and "The Peace Ship" carried Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg when he sailed to sign the Briand-Kellogg Pact Renouncing War in Paris (TIME...