Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, earlier in the week, Prince George, youngest son of the King Emperor, entered the booth of a crystal-gazing fortune teller, laid down a crown. . . . "Your father," said the seer, "was a sea captain but he has retired." Prince George nodded encouragement. His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth. "Your eldest brother . . . wait, young man . . . you must warn him! I see him in the crystal. . . . It is tomorrow. He rides in a race and I see him fall. . . ." Laughing, Prince George strode from the booth. Later he warned Edward of Wales...
...Manhattan Sir Charles Frederick beamed sunnily. His face is blocky, cheery as a well-fed sea-lion. To admiring newspapermen he at once offered $500 for the picture of the oldest tea drinker in the U. S. He wants to compare that face with the face of Turk Zaro Agha, 154, oldest tea drinker in Europe...
Died. David Septillu, aged "Reindeer King," wealthiest Alaskan Eskimo; on ice-locked St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, A rescue plane made repeated attempts to get through a blizzard in order to carry him to surgical aid, and medical instructions were radioed every hour to his nurse, from Nome...
Besides notebooks, unmailed letters, jottings, reviews, novels, plays and much plastic work of his hands, he left himself in people. Education in Iowa is finer because of him. Floyd Dell, his onetime gardener, is partly his work. The sea soughed in the piles and spouted up through the planks of the wharf on the first night of Bound East for Cardiff but the sea was never kinder to Eugene O'Neill than his first producer, "Jig" Cook, to whom the poets of Greece gave a fragment of Apollo's temple at Delphi for a tombstone, for whom Greek...
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...