Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pedro, passengers on the liner Moerdyk beheld a duel between a huge octopus and a man-eating shark. For nearly an hour, the two writhed together, the shark snapping, plunging, the octopus limaceously twining. At length the octopus thrust a tentacle down the throat of the maneater, at which the latter, vomiting buckets of entrails, expired...
Seventy miles off San Pedro, Calif., targets simulated an enemy fleet. Above them at 6,000 feet coursed real airplanes which trailed behind them great cloth funnels to be used as targets...
...authors only, and, more than that, plays which had not previously been produced in this country. This custom was changed last fall when it was decided to produce meritorious plays by native authors which had not previously been staged. In the line with this policy, the fall production was "Pedro the King," by Miss A. Anthony Wyse of Cambridge, and the spring production will be "The Moon Is A Gong" by John Dos Passos...
...Massey, who is considered one of the foremost coaches in an around Boston, has been the coach of the last two productions of the Dramatic Club. Last spring he produced Karel Capek's "Makropoulos Secret" and in December, A. Anhtony Wyse's "Pedro the King...
Later in the month, there will be gunnery practice off San Pedro, followed by a review of the fleet as it starts for San Francisco. On Apr. 15, the entire fleet will sail from the Golden Gate for Hawaii. About ten days later, it will undertake to capture the Islands from the land and naval forces stationed there. On July 1, ten of the most modern battleships, four cruisers and 26 destroyers, will go forth on a two months' voyage to Australia...