Word: soubriquets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull on the trains. Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre,? on the Susquehanna River. And so onward, between Senaco...
...oldest of monarchies, had become a republic. Dr. Sun did not get what he wanted out of the revolution; he formed a separate republic in the south and kept up the spirit of revolt against successive administrations in Peking. It was this attitude that earned for him the soubriquet of "the perpetual rebel...
Thomas S. Butler has been a member of Congress from Pennsylvania for more than a quarter of a century, and has earned the soubriquet "father of the big navy." In the 19th Century he predicted that competitive naval building would result in a limitation agreement. He now says that the Washington agreements of 1921 are being evaded by other nations which are now constructing smaller craft. He advocates another conference...
...common than one would suppose. A creature seen off Llandudno, like a long, undulating water-snake on mammoth scale, was convincing to the eyes of many beholders. Stories of a similar monster were so current along the American coasts during the last century that the hypothetical beast won the soubriquet of "American Sea-Serpent". Only last year, the repeated tales from South America of a "prehistoric" reptile sporting in the waters of a lake in the Andes, set zoologists agog and even stimulated a searching-party, which has not yet made its report...