Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American passengers on the British Aquitania that they might be sunk without warning-as travelers on a convoyed belligerent ship-that the U. S. Government could take no responsibility for their safety. Behind these gathering events, crowding arguments, confusing maneuvers that made up the Great Debate on U. S. neutrality, every U. S. citizen last week could feel, if he could not see, the vital, life-&-death issue: peace or war. To the great oratorical fugue about to start in the Capitol, never had there been a more unanimously attentive audience. The man who will play the counterpoint in that...
Stars there are in profusion, for Hollywood's largest flesh stable has sunk all its featured fillies in this production. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, and Mary Boland are all mixed up in some capacity or other in the film. Of the above, Miss Russell, Miss Boland, and Miss Goddard are all excellent. As for the other gilded lillies, their names appear first in lights, but their acting falls far below the supporting cast...
...Harvard students are known to have been on board the Athenia when it was sunk, although one undergraduate cancelled his passage at the last minute...
Meantime, the duty of Sire Kennedy and of U. S. Minister John Cudahy at Dublin was to determine and report just how the Athenia was sunk. Unshakable, unanimous belief of all hands was that a torpedo struck her just abaft amidships on the port side. Then, said Mr. Cudahy, she "was struck again, wrecking the engine room, by a projectile projected through the air." Mr. Kennedy's report said: "No witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine...
...Britain announced that severe damage had been done to a battleship lying alongside the mole at Brunsbüttel, that hits had been made on a second man-of-war off Wilhelmshaven. Few days later an unconfirmed dispatch from Switzerland said the 26,000-ton Gneisenau had been sunk. Germany denied it, said its anti-aircraft men had knocked down five of the twelve British raiders. Britain announced there had been "some casualties...