Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furious, Lord Lloyd protested vainly for an hour, finally was allowed to use the telephone. Calling the British Embassy he gave way to his feelings. Scandalized, the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald William Graham, sped in person to the police station, identified Lord Lloyd, swore that he was no potential assassin, and secured his release by a reluctant and still auspicious Fascist Police Captain. Foreigners in Italy less potent than...
...wildfirewise through Rumania last week that King Ferdinand lay dead in his palace, but that the fact would be concealed until after the return of Queen Marie to Bucharest. From every major Capital, Rumanian diplomats protested indignantly that their Sovereign was alive.* Meanwhile the Rumanian Court Chamberlain, General Angelesco, sped to meet Queen Marie on her arrival at Cherbourg...
...King has long been imminent (TIME, Jan. 11). 2) Despatches from Bucharest reported Queen Marie's "palace clique" to be holding its own with difficulty, since her departure, against the renewed onslaughts of the minority parties. Her Majesty is the political Generalissimo of the Crown. Having sped to Manhattan, she motored up the Hudson to Tuxedo, and rested there, awaiting the sailing of the Berengaria, at the estate of Charles Edwin Mitchell, President of the National City Bank which, with more than $1,000,000,000 capital, is the biggest in the U. S. Royal Words. Prior...
...symptoms of Navy Day. In Washington, Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur preached dogma: "A first-class Navy requires a first-class merchant marine. And a first-class merchant marine is absolutely dependent upon a first-class Navy." At Port Washington, L. I., Lieutenant Frank H. Conant* sped to an unofficial world's seaplane record (251.5 miles per hour). At Lakehurst, N. J., thousands touched the silvery hide of the dirigible Los Angeles and said, "Gee!" In Honolulu and Shanghai, brown-skinned and yellow-skinned populace looked at brawny necks emerging from glistening white U. S. uniforms. . . . Navy...
Landing at Shanghai, Colonel Thompson and his entourage sped to Peking without accident, saw there the blazing blue-tiled Temple of Heaven, and the Forbidden City, now moldering with decay. Returning to Shanghai, there to take ship for Japan, Colonel Thompson was informed that no sooner had his train passed the railway bridge just south of Nanking than it was dynamited, wrecking a subsequent train...