Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke of Clarence was engaged to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck at the time of his death (1892), but in the succeeding year the Princess was married to Prince George, now King and Emperor. Chance interrupted the succession and brought to a young sailor prince his consort and his throne. How has Chance dealt with Gaston Doumergue...
...hectic half hour furious fusillades swept over the soggy turf of the baseball diamond, the tit-tat-tat of the spitting machine gun sneering at the consistent popping of the rifles. Scouts, grenade dischargers, and wire cutters mingled in the heat of the fray, and many a sailor showed the potential ability of a movie actor by "biting the dust" with a consumate reality of the battle scenes in "What Price Glory." Little pin points of fire from blank shells glowed through the murkiness of the medical men ran about trantically with empty stretchers. All the ghastliness of bloody battle...
...Deck was extracted from an old Belasco play entitled Shore Leave, the plot of which charts the adventures of the hostess (Louise Groody) of a sailors' inn, who follows in the wake of Sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King), finally towing him away from all those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written...
...retired Admirals Diek, Bachmann, Kresigk, Gerdes. All accompanied Prince Henry at Kiel last week and the Admirals motored out next day to be his house guests at Hem-melmark. There, on his retired estate, Prince Henry, still with chubby pink chops and twinkling, kindly eyes, drank a sailor's toast to "The Navy" with his Admirals in mellow Steinberger*, precious as fluid gold...
Homo is the sailor home from the sea, and with him he has brought decided opinions concerning education, coeducation and floating colleges. Prematurely back in the United States, some weeks before the Ryndam which is bearing four hundred young men and sixty young women on a world cruise dedicated to the advancement of learning former Governor Allen of Kansas has much to say on the subject of his voyage. It was not be avers, an entirely unhappy voyage but it was a stormy one. He is still an upholder of the aquatic university, but he maintains that it needs practical...