Word: steams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in caves, pits, mounds, quarries, buttes for vestiges of the creatures that roamed the earth before them. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating whole dead civilizations. Millions of dollars spent in digging every year. . . . Following are significant efforts and exhumations of the past few months in the Western Hemisphere...
...deletion from that compendium last week the name of Mr. McEvers Bayard Brown, a descendant of the 16th mayor of New York, Nicholas Bayard. Death had brought to an end the career of perhaps the only man who ever lived on a seagoing yacht for 36 years, with steam up day and night, yet never sailed away...
...Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales. Mr. Brown, when he purchased her, sold another yacht (in which he had sailed from Manhattan never to return) to the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. He ordered the Valfreya?sleek and opulently resembling J. P. Morgan's Corsair?to steam into the little harbor of Brightlingsea, off the Essex coast of England. That...
...local British authorities is allegedly accounted for by his very large contributions to all the local charities. Last week many flags in the vicinity were flown at half mast in his honor. Allegedly, he realized that he might some day be restrained as insane and therefore kept steam up at all times, ready for instant escape. His wealthy Manhattan cousins, R.F. and W.B. Cutting, long ago evolved a formula for dealing with pressmen, declared themselves "ignorant of Mr. Brown's plans...
...fireworks over, a vote was taken. As the Baldwin steam roller crunched, Sir Austen was sustained 325 to 136. None the less, his prestige has undoubtedly suffered. Quoth a wag: "Sir Austen may yet drown in his own pail of white-wash...