Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monarch of Bermuda, whirling up over the dawn-lit horizon, was most effective. She skidded up to the Morro Castle like a polo pony, wheeled and dropped four of her boats with one splash before losing headway. The Monarch, Captain Albert R. Francis commanding, picked up 71 people. With less finesse, the City of Savannah rescued 65, the Andrea S. Luckenbach 21. Also on the scene was the Dollar Liner President Cleveland. She arrived at 6:20 a. m., lowered no boats until 7:08. She resumed her voyage at 8:03 without having saved a single soul...
...dawn the blazing Morro Castle was surrounded by rescue ships, the great three-funnelled Monarch of Bermuda, the coastwise steamer City of Savannah and the freighter Andrea F. Luckenbach, one of whose officers in a small boat grabbed young Phelps, dragged him to safety. Contorted faces appeared at cabin portholes, trapped, staring out from the red-hot plates. Some cursed and raved. In his own little private hell, one man seemed to smile and wave his hand in farewell...
This year the Little King made his debut in cinema. As an animated cartoon, his success was inconspicuous. A beardless variation of the Little King was created for an advertising series in which the diminutive monarch, grown suddenly articulate, dealt didactically with the merits of Standard Oil's Red Crown Super-fuel. For Borden's Ice Cream Soglow gave the King a son, the Crown Prince of Ice-Creamia, an amusing little moppet who behaved much like his father. For Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus department store Soglow drew a Queen who strangely exercised her royal prerogatives by appearing publicly...
...that time, and for decades thereafter, Tibet was almost as remote from the world as Mars, and to this day its Buddhist priests look on Everest as the abode of potent gods. Not until 1920 was permission for a climb obtained from the Dalai Lama, religious and temporal monarch who ruled the bleak uplands from Lhasa. The first expedition spotted the rock shoulder zig-zagging down from the peak to the saddle which was later called the North Col, but wasted its time on a heart-breaking approach to the saddle before discovering the more feasible access from East Rongbuk...
Years ago John Dominis, a shipmaster who made a fortune in the Pacific trade, built himself a fine white colonial mansion in what is now the centre of Honolulu. His half-white son married Liliuokalani, last Hawaiian monarch. John Dominis' house became Iolani Palace and his daughter-in-law lived in it long after she was deposed. When she died, a great fat wahine, in 1917, the territorial Government bought Iolani Palace as a Governor's mansion. It still stands, enlarged but little changed. There on March 1, "Judge" Poindexter was sworn in as Governor by his friend Justice Banks...