Word: statendam
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...Southampton, where the Mayflower awaited them. . . . Lucky are the people who can look back to such a history of toleration and strength as can the Dutch!" The 300-year-old Dutch bell of Manhattan's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas pealed for Juliana. Aboard the Dutch liner Statendam in Manhattan harbor, Knickerbocker notables toasted her name and "the truly Dutch name of President Roosevelt" at an eleven-course Dutch dinner. At the Netherlands Club in Gramercy Park, the Royal Dutch wedding caused even the most staid members to down thimbleful after thimbleful of scorching Holland...
Later on there were flurries of excitement as the Hindenburg passed the Normandie, Europa, Statendam. United Pressman Webb Miller saw three whales spout. At dinner, most of the women, but only three men, put on evening clothes to eat Black Forest trout...
...title to the pictures. At the last minute, threats of war made the Foundation hesitate to send such valuable semi-public property out of the country. Finally after much persuasion by Director Barr the directors relented and their van Goghs, insured for $1,000,000, were loaded on the Statendam, forwarded to Manhattan...
...they were seeking in the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931), so limited themselves to Japan, China, the Philippines, the South Pacific. Seventy-five of the no statues have been completed. Only the primitive types of Siberia and South America remain undone. Chatting in the lounge room of S. S. Statendam last fortnight, Sculptress Hoffman told reporters some of her adventures...
...York, dignified officials of the Holland America Line piled into a launch, chugged out to the Narrows, and yelled themselves hoarse cheering for the life boat crew of the Statendam racing for the international trophy of the Neptune Association which a Norwegian America liner (the Bergensfjord) won for the third time, thereby making it the permanent possession of Norway. However, the Statendam crew, gratified by the attention of the Line's officials, promised loyalty and their boat sailed on schedule for Rotterdam...