Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the Cruiser Bill. Senator Hale, sponsor, accepted an amendment by Senator Borah favoring a restatement of the laws governing the conduct of belligerents and neutrals in war at sea, such restatement to be completed, if possible, prior to the Limitation of Armament Conference...
...Canal added point and pith to the arguments of two vociferous groups at Washington. Obvious was the boost given the Navy's cruiser program now before Congress (see p. 10). Less obvious, equally welcome, was the boost given to the proposed second interoceanic canal through Nicaragua by a sea-level route requiring few if any locks. As the war-game neared its final phase, New Jersey's Senator Edge went on the air to urge passage of his bill to appropriate $150,000 for a Nicaraguan survey. Said he: "In the event of war, two canals would...
...mere pittance of 40 guineas ($200) a week, the Crown will rent sumptuous Craigwell House, in Aldwick Village near Bognor-on-Sea. A private beach, an electric organ, a private cinema-theatre, and hot & cold running salt & fresh water will be at His Majesty's disposal. Ap propriately enough, the owner is Sir Arthur Du Cros, President of Dunlop, Ltd., famed tyre makers, vaunters of the slogan: "As British As The Flag!" Dyspeptic persons addicted to taking Beecham's Pills espe cially rejoiced, last week, for Sir Arthur is also a director of "Beecham...
...pression that Norwegian nature is a monotone in its cold indifference Ibsen somewhat dispelled by his twin studies of the two Norwegian extremes: Peer Gynt, shiftless, debonair; and Brandt, steadfast, bitterly serious-minded. To dispel another popular impression?that the Vikings were god-like blonds exclusively engaged in swift sea fights?Sigrid Undset in turn makes twin studies: the Kristin Lavrans datter trilogy of some 500,000 words, and The Master of Hestviken, unfinished tetralogy. Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death. But in Kristin Lavransdatter the heroine, for such...
...removed from American vaudeville standards as Ruth Draper or George Arliss. Last night he gave three portraits: an old man, a sailor, and a mildly intoxicated inciter of the proletariat. These are fat material, and Fyffe has brought to them a rollicking voice that was born in the sea chanty rather than the inhaled, lyric school of voice culture. A few cravens will want to know that he does not even mention the name of bagpipe...