Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted his name in the book; David Belasco, "who has done more to enrich and to advance the dramatic art of. this country than has any other single producer;" Gertrude Atherton "planted the state of California on our mental map;" Richard Harding Davis "liked to think himself the Rough Rider of literature;" "Cissle Loftus?"a nice girl and needed the money;" Irene and Vernon Castle and the founding of "Castle House;" the long legs of Vernon Castle; a Spartan War-mother and a slacking son; the Shuberts?"mere striplings, dark-haired, dark-eyed and determined; a face three-quarters shot...
...Cunarder Laconia and other large liners have recently tried out the Sperry gyro-pilot, a device which automatically steers 50% better than the human hand. The mechanism depends upon the rotation of the earth, and saves much of the wear and tear on the ship in rough weather...
...three Blue light cruisers and a gunboat, which were at the Atlantic entrance (having been there before war commenced) reported by wireless that they had established contact with the enemy off Porto Bello?and reported no more?indicating that they had been "destroyed." Meanwhile, the Langley (Black) had found rough water that prevented launching its aeroplanes. A few Black planes launched from a base near Porto Bello reached the Gatun locks but were driven off by anti-aircraft batteries. Ten Blue planes reached Porto Bello and attempted to bomb the Langley...
That night Admiral Newton A. McCully, in command of the Black Fleet, sprang the first surprise. Some 1,000 or 1,500 marines in 50-foot motor boats carried by the Black Fleet traveled 17 miles from Porto Bello under cover of a smoke screen. Despite a very rough sea they effected a landing between 4 and 5am. A detachment of 400 attacked Fort Randolph and captured it from its defenders, who numbered 1 than half as many. Another detachment took the Coco Solo aviation field (defended by 70 mechanics) and submarine base, "destroying" submarine supplies and capturing all aeroplanes...
Meanwhile in England there is J. Ramsey Macdonald, surrounded in his Cabinet by such intelligentsia as Oliver, Snowden, Webb and Trevelyan, and such rough-and-ready Labor union men as Henderson, Thomas, Walsh, and Hartshorn. Before he accepted the premiership, Macdonald announced the sufficiently socialistic policy of a capital levy, and nationalization of the mines and railways. And there comes as convincing proof of the road this new government is to take the proposal to recognize Soviet Russia...