Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warships were maneuvering one bright morning last week. The submarines Phénix and L'Espoir submerged to make a sham attack on the flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, the cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. After a half-hour L'Espoir knifed to the surface, but no one saw the Phénix, and probably no one ever will. For a day and a half planes and warships crisscrossed the sea, searching in vain for the crippled vessel. And then the Ministry of the Navy belatedly informed the families of the crew and the world: "The submarine...
...although the mood of graduation is simple and far from sombre, the several hundred Laertes who sit in the Quadrangle to-day cannot fail to carry away something of deeper tone than the note of momentary joy. Will they help achieve what the Class Orator saw as the need of civilization: intellectual integration? Will they contribute to the enthronement of those human values which can be the only means of preserving that balance between the individual and society which is freedom and the only way to insuring democracy? It may be, if in addition to the belief in the goodness...
...Hollywood's Clover Club one night last week cafe society saw the nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor...
Kyra Goritzina was aware of the parallel between her lot and that of the White Russian aristocrats-turned-servants in Tovarich, which she saw in the movies and did not like. The Goritzins had their chance at a Tovarich performance when, working for a consul general in Manhattan, they were told that some "Red Commissars" were coming for lunch. The Goritzins took that day off, went to the movies...
...altitude of less than 100 ft., something happened. The motor sputtered, the plane faltered, dived into the river, settled with its nose on the bottom, its tail sticking out of water. The watchers at Boiling Field, including the flier's wife and son, saw it all. Dr. Luis Quintanilla, counselor of the Mexican Embassy, and Naval Attache Manuel Zermeno jumped into automobiles, jounced over fields to the riverbank. Quintanilla and Zermeno flung off their coats, plunged in, swam to the plane, tried to pull Sarabia out. But he was inert, wedged in the cockpit, his head pressed against...