Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...searchlight swung about, came to rest on another white mastlet. Up went the Stars and Stripes. Up struck The Star Spangled Banner...
Retired. Sir Bertram Fox Hayes, 60, famed White Star Steamship captain. In Sussex, England, he will live ashore with his two sisters, write his memoirs. For 43 years he has commanded great ships. In the Boer War, on his ship, the old Britannic, he carried 37,000 men to Africa. As skipper of the Olympic, converted into a transport during the World War, he carried 30,000 troops and "never lost a soldier." He sank one submarine by gunfire, another by ramming its stern, for which exploits he was knighted. A famed Indian chief who crossed with...
...history; and the fact that her monarch was devoted to polo, fond of riding, shooting, yachting, motoring? because, in fact, he was an all-round sportsman?the people suspected that all was not well with him. El juego sportivo?that was not for Spaniards. Indeed, the king's star was not in the ascendant...
Pierre de Ronsard, "Prince of Poets," bright, particular star of the Pléiade,* who that is not French remembers him? How he hymned the Bourbon monarchs in the voluptuous vernacular of the French Renaissance; how he invented gorgeous adjectives and ingenious flowers of imagery to describe the monarchs' wives and female friends; how he (mythically) quarreled with Rabelais over a point of style; how Queen Bess of England sent him presents where he dwelt in his fine chateau, fattening on the income from rich abbeys and priories; how Mary, the little prisoner queen of Scotland, addressed him from her dungeon...
George Owen Jr. '23, former star athlete at the University and at present assistant coach of the hockey team, will oppose his proteges tonight when he plays on the Boston Hockey Club sextet against the University team...