Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy, like the British Navy (see p. 16), has some attractions which the Army cannot offer. Scooting back & forth to the Spanish coast on independent duty the U. S. S. Cruiser Raleigh has recently used as its supply base the little French Riviera port of Villefranche, hard by Nice. That seamen of the Raleigh had not overlooked the opportunity thus given them for relieving the tedium of duty was last week indicated when the mayor of Villefranche married four members of the Raleigh crew to four good-natured French girls in one afternoon...
...such a serious problem to discuss: the British scheme for the partition of Palestine which would divide Jewry's sentimental homeland into 1) a northern Jewish state, including most of Palestine's arable land, 2) a southern Arab state, 3) a kidney-shaped British strip including the port of Jaffa and the sacred city of Jerusalem (TIME, July 19, et ante...
...American-Grace are separate airlines, although P.A.A.owns 50% of P.A.G. stock. P.A.A.'s safety record with its Clippers is almost perfect: only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last year when a Clipper sideswiped a launch while taking off from Trinidad's Port-of-Spain harbor, filled with water (TIME, April 20, 1936). Even that mishap was more like a collision between surface craft than the sort of accident that commonly befalls airplanes. The record of P.A.G., which flies the difficult South American overland routes, is less excellent but still good: 32 lives have been...
...sketches were enthusiastically approved by Harry M. Durning, Collector of Customs for the Port of New York, but brakes recently applied on some forms of Federal expenditure stalled the project. Last week a compromise was effected. Artist Marsh, insisting that he was "keen as hell" to get his mural up at almost any price had himself enrolled as an Assistant Clerk in the Treasury Department's Procurement Division, salary 90? an hour, $1,560 a year, to paint his picture. Under him will be six assistants, listed as "artists" and drawing $1.60 an hour for a 15-hour week...
...joining the Catholic Church, he was turned over to a freethinker in Switzerland, where he went in for society, became an addict of the French theatre after seeing Voltaire in one of his own plays, prided himself on becoming a man of the world instead of being "steeped in port and prejudice among the monks at Oxford...