Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is a sea elephant? President Coolidge knew all about the land elephant, which is the symbol of his political party: the largest of land animals, herbivorous, mammalian, ungulate, with a flexible proboscis, exaggerated incisors (tusks), rudimentary tail. But what is a sea elephant; mammal or fish? President Coolidge said he did not know and when John Ringling, who was in Washington with his circus, called at the White House and said his sea elephant weighed four tons. President Coolidge went to see for himself. Mrs. Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year...
...other institutions of higher learning, alumni of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis do not hark back as one man to their days under Old Prexy So-and-so. The Annapolis superintendent changes every two years or so as the Navy's admirals are sent to sea or to new desk jobs. Last week a new Annapolis superintendent was designated by Secretary Wilbur, to succeed Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton. Rear Admiral Nulton, raised to Vice Admiral, will go to command the battleship divisions of the U. S. battle fleet. To Annapolis will go Rear Admiral Samuel Shelburne...
...recently received a Nobel Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). In the House of Commons, last week, Sir Austen bared his imperfect teeth in a wolfish smile when Opposition back benchers shouted that he was "Bullying Egypt!" With the crisis safely passed, however, he beamingly announced that Empire sea hounds Warspite and Valiant had been ordered back to their kennel at Malta...
...into the Jungle. It has been said of the CRIMSON team that "No matter how charged with punishments the scroll, no matter even how straight the gait, let the team only beat the pants off Princeton and the season is successful." There is more than honor and a deep sea diving championship at stake here; the CRIMSON team has not lost a game to a college aggregation this season...
Author Macaulay, brought up in Italy, by the sea, now lives and writes in London. Somewhat annoyed that her publishers required further publicity matter than her creditable list of novels (Potterism, Told By An Idiot, Orphan Island) she answered in regard to hobbies: "I don't keep rabbits or collect stamps in these days...