Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladies Leave. Mrs. Charles Francis Adams and Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow set sail for Manhattan last week. Secretary of the Navy Adams admitted that his wife was going home to spend the Easter holidays with their son Charles Francis Jr. Mr. Morrow did not deny a report that his wife was leaving "because of important social engagements." Earlier in the week the wife of Ambassador-Delegate Hugh Simons Gibson had returned to her children in Brussels. Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson was left the sole U. S. delegate's wife to stay on doggedly through the eleventh week of the Conference...
Roald Amundsen was the name of a 15-ton, one-sail vessel, built to resemble (except for a galley funnel) the oldtime Viking ships, which reached Havana last week from Port Palos, Spain, after a 42-day voyage. Aboard: a crew of four and Captain Gerhard Folgero, good friend of the late Explorer Amundsen. Their aim: to collect funds to erect an Amundsen monument...
Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, set sail from Manhattan with her daughter Roberta and 75 pilgrims for the Holy Land. She said she intended to preach a sermon from the top of the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, another (on the evils of gambling) at Monte Carlo, but denied she would fly over Russia dropping pamphlets denouncing religious persecution...
...Francisco waiting to sail for Australia with Willie Collier and a road company of The Dictator when the 1906 earthquake occurred. Having spent the previous night away from home unexpectedly, he had nothing to put on but a full dress suit. In the bewildered, terrified crowds in the street he met Enrico Caruso and Diamond Jim Brady. They took back to New York the story that Barrymore had "dressed" for the earth quake. The commander of a local U. S. Army post recruited him to boss a gang of men in reconstruction work. He wrote home a harrowing account...
After the B. U. game about 20 members of the squad will be selected for the Southern schedule. On Saturday they will sail to Norfolk, Virginia together with the tennis and track teams...