Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the Friday evening cinema show on deck, a mustang wave leaped over the rail and soused part of the audience. An hour later, the Maryland was "in it"-a nor' caster in the Gulf of Tehuantepec ("Hatteras of the Pacific") roaring over from the Caribbean across Guatemala and lower Mexico. One comber smashed a port in the Hoovers' quarters in the fantail stern, flooding their dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night...
...Bilbo, who telegraphed that he was too busy even to fly down from Jackson for a day; and Massachusetts' Fuller, who, in the course of winding up his administration, punctuated the week by saying: "The greatest danger that confronts us . . . is the result of avarice on the part of our 'best people...
...great Queen's Grandson, George V, was but 63 last week. His death, thought Britons, would be a sad commentary on the wages of virtue and an upright life. Those Royal libertines, George I, George II and George IV, all died at the age of 67. That Royal part-time madman, George III (reigned 1760-1820; mad 1788-89 and 1811-20) lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would have approved the language in which last week, the Victorian physicians of George V bulletined the approach to crisis...
...invited to sit beside him jovial Viscount Lee of Fareham, who is just now ferreting into corruption at Scotland Yard as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure. The prominence of the chairman's police activities probably disarmed any suspicion on Ambassador Houghton's part that Viscount Lee, who used to be First Lord of the Admiralty, would try to draw him out on the delicate subject of Anglo-U. S. naval rivalry. Lord Lee did just that. Worse, he raised a preliminary laugh at the Guest of Honor's expense. Turning...
Gang War.* No gangster taking part in the crime-wave of the cinema has undergone a more amazing reformation than the one who, holding the rose his sweetheart has given him, is mowed down by pistol bullets while rescuing her innocent lover from the rival gang. Yet in spite of its frail conclusion and the inevitable echoes of the shots which, fired in the play Broadway, were heard round the world, this picture begins with a good idea: two reporters go to a dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with...