Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome, distinguished in appearance, voted by many the Best-Dressed Man in Boston. He is an excellent musician, the world's greatest virtuoso on the double bass as well as one of the great conductors. His past has been romantic: in Russia before the Revolution he used to sail with his orchestra up and down the Volga, giving concerts in all the basin towns, introducing much new music. He has great personal magnetism-the kind that makes female hearts beat fast at every concert, although his matronly-looking wife is always present, sitting well back on the right. Surest...
...major shock of the week for U.S. Delegate Stimson was the death of his personal secretary, Mrs. Pearl Demaret. Mrs. Stimson had just sent a goodbye bouquet to Mrs. Demaret who was about to sail for the U.S. because homesick for her husband and child. After arranging Mrs. Stimson's box of flowers on the window sill, Mrs. Demaret quite accidentally fell out of her Mayfair Hotel window...
Further excerpts: ". . . The old inventor had spread the tail of his frock coat like a sail and was in full flight toward the abyss of night. 'Do you mean to say,' shouted the saint as he caught up with him, 'that you actually don't want to enter heaven...
March 8, 9-International sail plane congress at Darmstadt, Germany...
Columbus' belief that he could sail to India across the Atlantic grew to be a monomania that he could persuade no one to share: the King of Portugal gave him some encouragement, but no help; when he came to Spain he was an exhausted beggar, in his late 40's. Said he: "I must beg my bread because Kings will not accept the Empires that I offer them." When Ferdinand and Isabella finally fitted out his little fleet of three boats, the crews had to be made up of criminals and riffraff: no one else would join...