Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct TIME'S sloppy work on the Leviathan's obituary: in sea jargon a voyage is a round trip, and Leviathan, as far as available records show, made 161 round trips as an American ship. Before that, as the Vaterland, she went across the Atlantic seven times. Last fortnight she completed her 330th crossing, which will be no round trip...
...Singapore thought, that three Yankee cruisers had come 4,500 miles just to watch a squad of British officials break the ribbon stretched across the entrance to the island's huge new naval dockyard. Singapore and Britons the world over preferred to believe they were there to show Japan that at least two Western nations vitally interested in the Pacific were reaching the end of their patience with Japanese aggression in the Far East, to hint gravely that in the event of a general war in the Pacific the navies of Britain and the U. S. will be able...
...Christian sufferings Apollonia was sainted. Still popular, she gives her name today to many a Catholic in eastern Europe, such as Polish Actress Pola Negri, born Apollonia Chalupec. But her greatest popularity springs from the fact that she has become a patron saint of dentists.* Last week, to show that it had not waned, no less than 500 French dentists made a pilgrimage on St. Apollonia's feast day to one of her chief shrines, at La Gaude near Nice. In the parish church which contains her statue the dentists attended mass, then made merry in the village...
Died. Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, 72, Russian sculptor; in Pallanza, Italy. Prince Paul first won recognition with an equestrian statue-a Red Indian modeled from a "Buffalo Bill" Cody Wild West Show in Milan...
This week the Metropolitan introduces a new policy, substituting a second feature for the stage show. Certainly this should be welcome news for Boston, as it indicates a swing away from the practice of padding programs with poor vaudeville. Poor pictures are usually easier to take than poor vaudeville...