Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around Shantung and into the Yellow Sea the Sheng An clanked steadily in the swell of a monsoon. Captain Vikhmann regaled Captain Taudien and his friends with vodka, smoked salmon, caviar. The Russian captain slept mostly with the first mate's Latvian wife but nobody seemed to mind, least of all First Mate Nicholas Azariev, hospitable and easy going. Finally one night when the Sheng An was 200 miles off Shanghai, the Germans and the Swiss went to work...
First they shot and killed the Chinese wireless operator as he slept in his bunk. Next Captain Vikhmann and the first mate's wife were murdered in his bed. Aroused by the shots, Mate Azariev rushed up from below decks, crumpled beneath a hail of Mauser bullets. To show precisely where everyone stood, Captain Taudien & friends then shot six unresisting members of the Chinese crew, two of whom were killed as they slept...
Worthy running mate to Henry is a strange little character named Philbert in Cottier's. Spotted in the back of the magazine, as Henry was in Satevepost, Philbert also has scored spectacular results since his birth a year ago, will soon make his cinema debut...
Twenty Grand won the Kentucky Derby in 1931. Mate won the Preakness. When the season ended, Twenty Grand was three-year-old champion but many track followers still thought Mate the better horse. Two months ago, Mate was brought back from England and Twenty Grand came out of retirement for the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
...post for the first time at California's newest and finest track. A crowd of 18,000 turned out to see the old argument finally decided, watched a four-year-old filly named High Glee win the seven-furlong race by two lengths with a new track record. Mate was second. Twenty Grand three-and-a-half lengths behind...