Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Terrible begins to spin like a top. "Peter is desperate. "He falls on his knees. "He weeps. "He beats the sailors. "He kisses them. "He prays. "He promises the Lord Jesus Christ a cross if he will save him from shipwreck. He promises to appoint Him a Russian Rear-Admiral. "Ivan the Terrible is hurled upon the coast and shattered to pieces. "Peter and the sailors are washed upon the shore like dead fish...
...building regulations allow only a small number of persons to stand at the rear of Appleton Chapel or in the galleries, the attendance is limited to those who can be admitted under the legal requirements. The musical program for the services will...
...Rear Admiral William Pratt, Commandant of the Naval War College in Newport, declared that in his opinion the air policy of the Navy Department was intelligent and sound...
...Rear Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations, denied that Commander Lansdowne had protested against sending the Shenandoah overland; declared that he had consulted with the Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics and Commander Lansdowne before ordering the flight, had given orders that naval officers should use their own judgment in making flights. He said further that the Shenandoah was not sent on a propaganda mission but was on a training flight, since the ship might at any time have been compelled to fly overland from coast to coast for military purposes...
...single artillery officer on horseback led the procession. King George, with his sons and Prince Olaf, followed the gun carriage on foot, clad in long black overcoats and tall silk hats; while the ladies of the royal party, heavily veiled, rode in three two-horse closed carriages. The rear guard of the procession was brought up by the 77-year-old Earl of Leicester, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, who walked at the head of practically the entire personnel of the Queen Mother's Sandringham estates...