Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunk. On a reef off Cape Fear, N. C.: the famed Ingomar, once one of the world's finest steel schooners, built by Herreshoff in 1903 for Morton Plant whose skipper Charley Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting...
...Wilhelm Furtwangler and Willem Mengelberg were popular for a time in Manhattan, then severely criticized and not invited to return. Bruno Walter was twice guest leader of the defunct New York Symphony, but in his brief regime he could not raise it from the lethargy into which it had sunk after years under Walter Damrosch. The fifth great maestro, who has not failed, is Arturo Toscanini. Under his guidance the New York Philharmonic-Symphony is enjoying the greatest prosperity of its history. To share the baton with him next year will come German Erich Kleiber and, announced last week, again...
Just after the Los Angeles with Assistant Secretary Ingalls aboard had made an important "spot," a dozen Black planes whizzed down upon her, riddled her silvery sides. "You're sunk! Pleasant voyages," flashed the umpire's crisp radio to the dirigible which thereafter was forced out of the game. In theory the Hoover Cabinet had lost its most gallant junior member in the wastes of the Pacific...
...sunk in the priests, naturally, to the neck...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Jacob Steinger, 62, was napping in his son's office when a bandit entered, robbed Son Louis, a doctor, of $71. "Watch out, pop!" shouted Son Louis. Father Jacob awoke, jumped on the bandit, sunk his teeth into the bandit's gun hand, received a bullet in his shoulder. The bandit shrieked, dropped his gun. Then Father Jacob shot him in the back...