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Unprecedented. Aboard the Renown the Duchess and her two ladies-in-waiting* experienced the qualm of being not merely the only three women on a very big ship, but absolutely the only women who have ever been transported - except in emergencies - aboard a British ship of war. No maids are at their disposal. Their hair will be dressed by a marine especially educated for this duty by London coiffeurs (TIME, Dec. 27). They must subject their washables to the deadly friction of sailor scrubbing boards...
...maximum of 18 knots, since we are making a long distance run and cannot risk accidents. Because of our slow speed our voyage was similar to that of Columbus. Although, in case of an accident we would have been helpless without a mother ship, the men never showed a, qualm when we passed out of sight of land. . . . I am always pessimistic on a submarine, for that is safest. I do not let even the men become optimistic. The regular rations of Holland gin which our navy gives to every sailor is prohibited by me on the submarine...
When the convicted ringleaders, Chief of Police Emmerich von Nadossy of Budapest and Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, stood up for sentence the courtroom became a pandemonium of sobs, groans and cries. Momentarily the representatives of the Bank of France, the civil plaintiff, experienced a qualm lest their instant lynching impended. Then Chief von Nadossy spoke...
...read, his high-bridged nose took on a stern aquilinity; the lines on his forehead and about his lips grew deeper. From time to time he looked up from his manuscript and down among his audience at a person here, a person there. Over such would pass first a qualm at the sincerity and the certainty and the complete integrity of the speaker's conscientiously thought out personal creed. Then would surge up a complete agreement with the views expounded. He carried his audience...
...correspondent George Seldes filed a sensational bit of news to the following effect: "The rebels at Damascus have threatened to disembowel me if I ever return there." In Manhattan, Gilbert Seldes, famed esthete and onetime editor of the Dial, received this news of his brother with many an uneasy qualm...