Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, New Outlook felt that the public appetite for Editor Smith's maiden sally had been whetted to a point warranting the printing of a half-million copies of the magazine's first edition, to be issued Oct. 1, with a guarantee to advertisers of 200,000 circulation. Few observers thought that Colyumist Adams had guessed wrong...
...stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic over the longer, warmer, and some say smoother southern route. When the Rex ploughs up New York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden voyage in October, she will have sliced two full days from the southern run. With Italy only one sea day beyond Paris, Il Duce expects his Italia Line will now bring swarms of U. S. tourists to enrich his Fascist land. Time of the two big ships from Manhattan...
Fortnight ago Alice Roosevelt Longworth cut her way through floral strands stretched across the gangplank, struck her head against something, had her hat knocked off. Smilingly jamming hat on head she marched forward, officially opened the ship to the public. Booked to capacity for her maiden voyage this week. the Manhattan was given in charge of U. S. Lines' hero-captain, George Fried...
...spick & span readiness for her maiden voyage from Manhattan this week was the 5. S. Manhattan, biggest (705 ft., 24.000 tons), fastest (22.7 knots) liner ever built in the U. S.* Fortnight ago on its two trial cruises, the Manhattan met every test successfully, was unofficially scored "100% plus." Soot from the two squat, rakish funnels had smudged many a celebrity on the trial run but it was a simple matter for 100 workmen to raise the short stacks 15 feet...
...once camped near his palace, and he went straight out to call on her. While she hustled out chairs, prepared to welcome him he sounded off point blank, "'Miss Potter-where is God?' 'He is everywhere,' replied Miss Potter with dignity. 'But, my dear Maiden,' exclaimed His Highness, planting himself firmly in one of the chairs, 'what good is that...