Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one member of Britain's War Cabinet. Meanwhile, there was the job of sending the nine Kennedy children* back to the U. S., three at a time and arranging to reopen their home at Bronxville, N. Y. (The other Kennedy homes, in Palm Beach, Hyannis Port, Mass., are closed...
Meantime, the duty of Sire Kennedy and of U. S. Minister John Cudahy at Dublin was to determine and report just how the Athenia was sunk. Unshakable, unanimous belief of all hands was that a torpedo struck her just abaft amidships on the port side. Then, said Mr. Cudahy, she "was struck again, wrecking the engine room, by a projectile projected through the air." Mr. Kennedy's report said: "No witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine...
...Duke of Windsor, as Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. King George VI sent a personal emissary to Cannes to invite him and the woman he thought worth a throne to come home, sent a destroyer to a secret Channel port to fetch him. The Duke & Duchess of Kent offered him their town house. But this did not mean that the royal family planned to take the unroyal Duchess to its bosom...
...Comet was conceived seven years ago, at lazy, old-world Oxford (port of entry for Maryland before Baltimore was even a village). Well-pedigreed Mrs. Elliott Wheeler, daughter of one of the founders of the exclusive Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club, asked seafaring Lowndes Johnson, another native blue blood, to design a small boat in which her young sons could learn the ABCs of sailing. A one-design boat, 16-ft. long and patterned somewhat after the bigger Stars (22 ft.) in which Designer Johnson had become famed as a skipper (1929 world's champion), the Comet was adopted...
...will be applied. Strict enforcement of the Act would prevent exports in vessels of any nationality of arms, ammunition or implements of war for belligerent states- would put a crimp in present foreign commitments outstanding. Just under the wire last week a British steamer slipped out of San Pedro (Port of Los Angeles) with twenty-five Lockheed bombers aboard...