Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lords, the penalties of this bill,* in so far as they are to be visited upon proprietors, will fall on my unhappy head alone. As the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, I am a proprietary Crusoe stranded in a sea of syndicates. I verily believe that I am the only 'sole proprietor' of a newspaper in the whole Metropolitan area. . . . "Moreover let me say that the bill is chiefly an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities . .. yet I do not object, My Lords. It is only fair that...
...personage by cabling to the world's ends a speech which he made in London before the Institute of Marine Engineers. The speech would not have mattered had it not been so very typical of Baron Kylsant. Because he came to shipping not from the sea but from Newton College, South Devon, he has not the mariner's longing to do everything in "the good old way," but sees ships, as landsmen do, chiefly as a means to get men, food and merchandise from one dry place to another...
Engineers have long ago proved theoretically and by individual test the superiority of the motor ship; but the old salts of the sea are still suspicious, as they were once of steam. "Sails," they said, "are safer than expanding steam." "Steam," they say, "is safer than exploding oil." Lord Kylsant, director of some 488 steamships and some 50 motor ships, said last week : "The experience of ship owners who have operated motor vessels is . . . contrary to expectation . . . that they are both reliable and dependable . . . cheaper to run . . . can carry larger cargoes. . . . Our motor ships have covered 7,500,000 miles...
...insatiable nose; and secretaries, peering softly through the door, will tell visitors, "he's in conference." Over their heads Girl Scouts from Waukegan will scream at the wind, and their little brothers will all but dive into New York Harbor at the sight of the liners going out to sea...
...Larkin Tower will stand like a defiant answer to the Tower of London in the rival city across the sea. London Tower will say, "I'm a thousand years old;" Larkin Tower will say, "Look at me." Homesick Americans all over the world will extoll this newest of Gotham's wonders; and if some stranger should ask, "Who is this Larkin? Some great general of yours?" they will stop a moment and reply, "Why no, he's the fellow who built it, I suppose...