Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time the body of Peter's murdered father was coming back from Marseilles on the light cruiser Dubrovnik, the same ship that had carried Alexander to France and to death. In a very simple coffin he lay. One of the last acts of Queen Marie before rushing to Paris to join her son was to have the admiral's uniform in which her husband was killed changed to the service dress of a Serbian general, in which he had spent most of his life. Nations hurried to do him honor. From Rome Benito Mussolini wired shore batteries...
...broad River Plate, a flagship banged out a 21-gun salute and all craft in sight broke out bunting. Through the bright spring morning air sounded the bells of Buenos Aires' 103 churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach through four miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing...
Editors thanked the Providence which gave them a Morro Castle sensation when Strike news turned stale; a Hauptmann when the ship story petered out; and now a juicy murder just as the Hauptmann case seemed to head downhill. But they also should have offered a grateful word to Cinema. For it was the millions who had seen the film of An American Tragedy, not the thousands who had plugged through Dreiser's two-volume novel, that lifted the Wilkes-Barre story from a cheap, provincial homicide to a seven-day sensation...
Last month Captain Robert E. Carey of the Dollar liner President Cleveland was charged with adding to the death toll in the Morro Castle disaster by his delay and incompetence. Last week the two ship's officers who made the charge were removed from his command. Chances were they would be dismissed by the company, which exonerated Captain Carey on his past record...
...greying golliwogg mop of hair, Einstein hates to wear a hat, likes to wander in the country or sail a small boat, plays the violin with concert skill. Last March he was put on the official Nazi black list, deprived of German citizenship. Though he has Swiss citizen ship, Einstein has lived in the U. S. since last autumn, goes each winter to work at the Flexner-directed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. There he lives in the seclusion he likes, with his comfortable Hausfrau...