Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quelle Horreur!" At 5:30 on the evening of Sept. 30, 1869, France's Empress left St. Cloud with her staff, her pets and her retainers to board the imperial yacht Aigle at Venice and sail to Suez. On the way they called on Italy's Victor Emmanuel (whom Eugénie detested), the King & Queen of Greece, and the Sultan of Turkey. When she left, the Sultan gave her a carpet on which was embroidered a portrait of her husband, the Emperor, with real human hair and a mustache. "Mon Dieu," exclaimed...
Dosed with this combination, Dr. Brady says, the jittery student will sail through an examination in fine style...
That seemed to put Jay Franklin in his place and Harry Truman squarely on the old course. But it didn't answer all the questions. What kind of man was the new Secretary of State, and what kind of course would he sail...
Last fortnight, just as the Marlin was to sail from St. Lucia, a woman screamed that someone had stolen her demijohn. When police went aboard the Marlin, they uncovered hams, butter, soap, cloth, shoes and other contraband. Goods and traffickers were hustled off to the hoosegow. The women pleaded Martinique's hunger, and the police relented. Late in the day they let the Marlin sail, with a warning that next time things would go harder...
...when the young man refused ordination on the grounds that infant baptism was probably ineffectual and that the Gospel stories told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were too contradictory to be credible. The canon then ordered his son to become a schoolmaster or a barrister. Instead, Butler set sail for New Zealand and, helped by money from his father, became a prosperous sheep rancher. Five years later he returned to England, having sold out for a sum on which he was able to live for much of his life...