Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showing his feather, Home Secretary Sir John Simon said: "I declare myself unwilling to see a single ship sunk, even in a successful battle, in the cause of Ethiopia...
Luncheon was a family affair at Buckingham Palace. King Edward and Queen Mary there decided that when a British warship soon tows the Royal Yacht Britannia's hulk out to be sunk in the. Channel, this will be done in secret, lest yachtsmen and seafarers congregate unduly. The beloved yacht of King George, "The Sailor King," has now been stripped of its best things which were sold at auction in 344 lots last week at East Cowes...
...Ship of State is on the Rocks And soon it will be sunk. It has no pilot at the wheel But regimented Bunk. It wanders to the right and left, It flounders all around. It needs a Captain on the Bridge Whose reckoning is sound. London, Oh! Landon, will lead to Victory, With the dear old Constitution And it's good enough...
...refused to appropriate money to continue them, President Roosevelt washed his hands of the two ventures. He had started them on relief money without consulting Congress, now declared it was up to Congress to finish them. But the President had already tossed $5,500,000 over the Maine dam, sunk $5,400,000 in the Florida ditch, and well he knew that Republican campaigners would not let U. S. voters forget his headlong largess...
...they have been in the past, and the whole affair is not likely to increase his prestige, or what is more important, his votes next Fall. By showing his anger in this vindictive manner, he is letting the people of Massachusetts know that the sting of criticism has sunk deeper that was expected. The old adage of "It's the truth that hurts" would seem to apply in this case, for His Excellency has taken the matter very much to heart...