Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became exercised during the week over the apparent Senate blockade of its 16-ship building program. Theodore Douglas Robinson, convivial Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was sent "up the hill" to remind forgetful Senators that 16 ships were little enough; the Navy had asked originally for 71 ships. Grizzled sea-dogs were infuriated by a rumor, doubtless emanating from wickedly pacifist Congressmen, that President Coolidge himself had sanctioned sidetracking the ships to relieve the already strained Budget. . . . Whether or not the Navy's topmost chiefs, Secretary Wilbur and Admiral Hughes, believed this gossip, they smiled pleasantly enough...
...dense for horseback riding, the Viceroy cast dignity to the Himalayan breezes, and began with gusto to scramble and to climb. Leaving the jungle behind, as they ascended, the party made a rocky climb of nearly 5,000 feet to the summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where he was met by a motor car and whisked 14 miles to the comfortable Viceregal Lodge at Simla...
Leaving Kings Bay the Italia sailed over a freely moving sea, unhampered by ice; headed north over the Franz Josef Archipelago for Tepliz Bay. Here the Sella Polare, the Duke of Abruzzi's ship, once wintered, here Francesco Querini heroically lost his life in the Cegni polar expedition of 1909, here in loyal commemoration Nobile dropped a symbol of St. Mark upon the ice. Low over the ice flew the Italia, through a dense fog, into a head wind, its speed cut to 40 miles, ice forming on its sides. Gradually the air cleared, visibility improved. Lenin Land, discovered...
...particularly unpleasant at Hunstanton, England, where the British women's tournament was played last week. Followed by several thousand people a pair of pretty girls began the tournament by driving into a wind that swept in full of rain from the cold North Sea...
...black or even brown among the paints on her palette. The six short stories which make up the volume are woven of the golden mist of day dreams, and the silken threads of a playful imagination. The characters are frankly of the sort that never were on land nor sea but only in the mind of one who is willing at least occasionally to think of how pleasant things might...