Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago, when about to sail for Russia, I found in my cabin on the Olympic a letter from a friend asking that I place a wreath on the tomb of Paxton Hibben...
Second U. S. skipper to sail into Canton, China, was Albany's Captain Stewart Dean of the sloop Experiment in 1789. It was to Albany that Inventor Robert Fulton chuffed up the Hudson from New York in the world's first steamboat in 1807 and in 1825, when the Erie Canal was opened to Buffalo, Albany, now the logical gateway to the West, felt its marine prestige assured...
...shadowed rear of the Royal Box, she was none the less occupying it, in the absence of King Edward in South Wales. With Mrs. Simpson was a large party of whom the ostensible hostess was Maude Alice ("Emerald") Lady Cunard. As usual, stately Lady Cunard was in full sail with her famed cargo of rubies. Mrs. Simpson, who was recently provided with a $750,000 emerald and diamond necklace (TIME, Oct. 12), wore last week only a new set of diamonds. Next morning London society columns omitted Mrs. Simpson but named every other occupant of the Royal Box. This sort...
...President's vagueness was practical as well as diplomatic. For last week he was very busy cramming for his annual fiscal examination, the Budget message which he must send to Congress in January. Eager to get away on vacation, with plans all set to sail this week from Charleston to the Pan American Peace Conference at Buenos Aires, he had to do intensive studying before leaving. Every morning his tutor, Budget Director Daniel Bell, came to the White House to give him an hour's instruction. Afterward the tutor departed leaving Pupil Roosevelt with his homework, the budget...
...last week's end the austere, astute Papal Secretary of State concluded what he called his month's "vacation," set sail for Italy. If there was anything deeply significant in his visit, the U. S. press, slickly and amiably handled by the Cardinal from start to finish, had not printed it. In the Vatican best opinion remained that he had gone to the U. S. primarily to see and be seen by as many as possible of the hierarchy which shepherd 20,000,000 Catholics. But, though Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli would be grievously offended were it mentioned...