Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boomed Rear Admiral Fiske: "The British interests demand that Britain shall continue to dominate the sea trade of the world and dominate it with British guns. Our interests demand an equal right upon the sea. We are rapidly coming to a point where, to use expressive slang, we've really got to put up or shut...
Lady Iveagh, daughter-in-law of the late head of the Guiness Brewery, became the seventh woman member* of the present parliament when she won (by a majority of about 6,000 votes over her Liberal and Labor opponents), the seat for Southend-on-Sea, vacated by her husband's elevation to the Peerage on the death of his father. Said she, summing up what was called a "piquant campaign:" "The Southend people's verdict proves, further, their confidence that a wife may represent them as faithfully as a husband...
...Pirates of Penzance. Winthrop Ames, true to his pledge to establish a Gilbert & Sullivan repertory, has inserted in the run of The Mikado one performance apiece weekly of the above famed light operas. The productions are essentially the same as when first presented by Mr. Ames in recent sea sons. They are unconditionally guaranteed...
...history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally but arguments were found to convince him, and in December of 1831 The Beagle put to sea from Barn-pool, carrying Darwin and 73 men below her narrow decks...
Although the news has not yet reached the majority of American interior decorators, a change is coming over the fashion in parior keepsakes. The chip from the base of the Sphinx, the vial of water from the Red Sea, the bag of dust from the Catacombs; they are all doomed to go. The thing to supplement the pictures taken at the beach is now the family collection of "priceless and cherished symbols of American sport achievement," as the New York store sponsoring the idea calls them. Baseballs whose motion during a world series has been broadcast to five million listeners...