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...Barthou was pumped full of bullets before he could persuade the British Government to act without Germany. British diplomacy, harping away century after century upon the old string "Divide & Rule," does not readily accept a solution which would screw down everything too tight in Europe...
Wednesday evening the twin-screw turbo-electric liner Morro Castle, 11,500 tons, lay at her Ward Line pier in Havana. In her hold was a cargo of 750 tons of perishable fruit. She was manned by a crew of 240. And up her gangway, in little groups chattering about their Cuban purchases, trooped 318 passengers. Most of them were U. S. vacationists on a week's southern cruise and few of them were distinguished persons. The Morro Castle was warped into the roadstead, stood out of the harbor, bound for New York, three days away...
Both Rao and Cleary, it soon developed, were animal lovers. Cleary had a police pup chained to his bed. The dog wore a harness on which was graven the name "Screw Hater" ("screw" = guard). The Irishman also had a cote of 100 pigeons in his dormitory. Rao maintained a flock of 200 more on top of the prison storage house. Also his criminal lackeys had built him a little fenced garden, with flowers, benches and a milch goat. Both Cleary and Rao had passes permitting them to roam the island at will...
...Bacchante's guns were muzzle loading and her speed six knots. She had an engine and a screw, but as with all naval vessels of the time the instructions were to use sail on all possible occasions. The King thus learned the old sail drill which carried Nelson to victory at Trafalgar, and served in the navy during the most eventful period of its life, when it changed from oak to iron, from muzzle loading to hydraulic loading, and from sail to steam and even...
...Central Islip, L. I.'s hospital for the insane a doctor extracted from the stomach of a woman inmate 48 teaspoons, two bolts & nuts, a large screw, a needle, a pencil, a piece of glass, said that the 48 teaspoons had been stacked neatly in her stomach...