Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British skippers, haughtiest in the world, who gasped with astonishment when Herbert Hartley was given the Leviathan in 1923 ahead of "Handsome Harry" Cunningham-gasped because Hartley was then jobless after grounding first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, whereas Cunningham was right in line for the post, being skipper of the George Washington-were inclined to mix sympathy with their blame last week. "It was jolly bad work," said one of them, "but jolly worse luck. On his very first trip, too-tch, tch. Maybe Hartley left his luck on that Leviathan...
...just before the Leviathan was ready, Harold A. Cunningham was senior officer of the U. S. Lines and Herbert Hartley, having had the bad luck to run aground first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, was a skipper without a ship and with no great hopes of getting one. Last week, Mr. Hartley himself retold the "fluke" by which he became Commodore...
Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
...Members of a Buddhist sect, flourishing in Tibet or Mongolia; not to be confused with llamas, wooly, malodorous, South American, sheeplike ruminants...
...objectives after Moscow, were Omsk, Tomsk, and Urga and then across Mongolia to Kilgan and Peking...