Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That night it filled again with the same secrecy-sworn galaxy of leaders. They heard Tannhauser sung. To perform by special command of Der Reichsjilhrer, beauteous Prima Dona Maria Mueller, half German and half Czech, had been all but jerked off the boat on, which she was about to sail to Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...Deutsch ist die Saar! The Saar is German!" roared uniformed Germans marching with brass bands up & down Manhattan docks as the voters prepared to sail. "We really won't vote when we get there!" giggled one young woman born in the Saar. "We are just taking the free trip-or at least...
Hearing the approaching alarums of a Communist-bandit horde coming fast down the Yuan River, the Misses Granner and Renninger hopped into a small Chinese junk and told the boatman to make haste by sail and oar for the city of Changteh. As the square-bowed, flat-bottomed boat slithered downstream, the army's hubbub crept up behind. The junk was lolloping along 20 miles short of Changteh when it was overhauled and seized by the bandits...
...Calhern). her younger daughter. Baba. is thoroughly pleased. Baba (11-year-old Jeanne Dante, in her third play) is a pudgy little hedonist, fond of chocolates and a general good time. Sir John wins her affection easily with a theatre party and promises to teach her to play golf, sail a boat, ride a pony...
...Cunard-White Star Line officers must do on reaching 60, Captain John W. Binks of the S. S. Olympic prepared last week to quit the sea after 45 years in steam & sail. Memorable indeed was the last westbound trip of the Olympic's florid, stocky skipper from Southampton to New York. Over the North Atlantic raged a winter's storm that brought many a vessel distress, twice sent the barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take...