Word: sos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week Coast Guardsmen stationed at Cape May, N. J. intercepted an SOS that shivered their timbers: "Any ship in neighborhood with guns on board . . . lion broken loose. ..." The sender was Royal Netherlands liner Amazone, steaming 90 miles off the coast with nine passengers, half a ton of gunpowder and some 14 wild animals which she was newcastling from New York zoos to a zoo in animal-ridden Venezuela. Her crew packed no firearms...
...silenced this summer. Since March 1928, when Freeman F. Gosden became Amos and Charles J. Correll Andy, they have had one vacation, eight weeks in 1934, when they were plugging for Pepsodent. Other than that, they have missed only two broadcasts-one episode was silenced by a general SOS, but later printed in many newspapers; and once they went hunting in Maryland and were snowed in. Even when Correll's baby died last January, the show went on, the pair doing the first broadcast together, and Gosden reading all the parts at the rebroadcast few hours later. Although other...
...crew plowed on deeper into icing weather after they knew they were in trouble. Forty-nine minutes before she crashed, the Cavalier radioed that she might have to take the desperate expedient of landing in the open sea; 15 minutes before the landing she sent out an SOS. Yet she continued Bermuda-ward, made no effort to locate seagoing vessels near which she might land for quick rescue...
Over a windswept sea 322 miles southeast of Cape May, Cavalier suddenly radioed: "All engines failing-ice. . . . SOS . . . Landed okay . . . sinking...
...Cambridge, fellow students, hopelessly out-argued, called him Thomas Babble-tongue. In his sos he was a leading contributor to the powerful Edinburgh Review. At 30 he was an M. P., the most effective speaker in Parliament. Two years later he was the hero of the bitterly fought Reform Bill. At 33 he was a member of the supreme council of India. (Resigning five years later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying...