Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PLAIN TALES OP THE NORTH- Thierry Mallet-Putnam ($2). Captain Mallet is president of a fur company (Revillon Freres) whose flag, flapping at the masthead of a trading schooner, has been watched for and hailed by Indians and Eskimos on the headlands of Labrador and Hudson's Bay for two centuries. Besides traveling in Siberia and soldiering in France, Captain Mallet has visited these hardy trappers many times. Evidently he has found time for good reading on his trips, or maybe it is through his Gallic inheritance that he comes by the lucid, restrained prose in which, a page...
There is another empire over which Arthur Curtiss James presides. He even has a flag to symbolize his rule there-a triangular piece of bunting bearing a crescent and a star. It flew at the masthead of the Coronette, the yacht in which he went around the world; it snapped at the halyards of the Aloha I and the Aloha II, famous sailing yachts. Mr. James handles his yachts himself. He holds master's papers which permit him to operate his craft in any waters. He is a former commodore of the New York and Seawanhaka-Corinthian yacht clubs...
...strange ship Baden-Baden, with a black ball at her masthead to show she is a sailing vessel but with no canvas to prove it, moved in and out of New York harbor last week with distinguished company aboard. Inventor Herr Anton Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best he could to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps...
...young farmer-professor launched Farmer and Dairyman, later known as Wallace's Farmer when it was merged with the elder Wallace's Iowa Homestead. At the masthead of Wallace's Farmer is this motto, invented by the Presbyterian pastor: "Good Farming, Clear Thinking, Right Living...
...last bugle note sounded in Colombes Stadium; a cannon boomed; down came the broad, embroidered Olympic standard from its masthead. Officials had gathered, had distributed prizes, had declared the Eighth Olympiad at an end. Tag-end events were won as follows : Weightlifting, Italy; yachting, Norway; equestrian sports, Sweden; cycling, France; gymnastics, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland. The few athletes remaining in Paris paid bills, packed trunks, bought tickets, caught steamer-trains, held postmortems. Led by the London Times, British newspapers chimed in on the post-mortems with notes for the most part sour. The Times flatly asserted that the games had inflamed...