Word: shenandoahs
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...like the mock-turtle in Alice, caused more blush-worthy embarrassment during the Coolidge era than any other member of the Cabinet. First came the inept Wilbur speechmaking in the 1924 campaign, necessitating his recall to Washington. Then there was a series of Navy disasters ? the Shenandoah, the S-51, the S-4 ? for which no Secretary could have been held directly ac countable, but during which Secretary Wilbur handled himself so clumsily that he became the butt of worse than blamed ridicule. Pressmen made sport of the Wil bur high-kicking, the Wilbur Sunday school class...
Other ballads-with-a-moral for the mail-order circuit and Tin Pan Alley are "The Wreck of the Shenandoah," "The Death of Floyd Collins," more than 200 Lindbergh songs. Least melodic in title is "The Hall-Mills Case...
...first time a Republican President had ever made a visit of any duration in Virginia. Crowds cheered the Coolidge progress through Staunton and Waynesboro to the Swannanoa Country Club, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Thanksgiving gifts poured up the mountain-a monster fruit cake, a dozen quail, a juicy Virginia ham, six boxes of apples, a monster turkey...
...inaccurately used to refer to a rigid airship. Correctly, dirigible is an adjective describing any lighter-than-air craft with a propelling and steering system. *One of the competitors is American Brown Boveri Electric Corp., which employs famed Capt. Anton Heinen, designer of several Zeppelins and the ill-fated Shenandoah...
Capt. Anton Heinen, builder of Zeppelins and the ill-fated U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was made a citizen of the U. S. last week at Toms River, N. J. His examination score was 100%. He is now engaged in building two dirigibles for the U. S. Navy...