Word: terness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a lonely Coast Guard cutter, the Tampa, was hurrying north to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Behind her lay a winter season of snooping after rum-runners off the U. S. Before her stretched a season of snooping af-ter icebergs. On April 15 she, or her alternate iceberg scout, the Modoc, will heave to at latitude 41° 46' north, longitude 50° 14' west. Her crew, except for the ever present watch in crow's-nest and bridge, will fire three volleys, will moan "taps" in lament for the sinking of the Titanic...
...ter and better than steel." He declared: "If Germany beats America to the production of such a metal, the world will pay the German war debt one hundred times over...
...this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered round that Mistress Advocate had had some secret traffic with old John the Orangeman. But John, whene'er the thing was hinted at, swore roundly in his well known way, "Ter Hell wid Yale!"--disclaiming thus his offspring. Thus Lampy's disinheritance has been advanced by some as cause sufficient for his marked dislike of County Corkers...
Then up jumped Charles Bertrand, ardent Nationalist. He roared: "Have we reached the point when we must choose between bankruptcy and M. Caillaux? Bankruptcy would be bet ter, for the reinstatement of M. Caillaux shows moral bankruptcy, which is infinitely the worse...
Married. Mrs. Harriet Pullman Carolan, of Burlingame, Calif., sis ter-in-law of Frank O. Lowden, one-time (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, to Col. Arthur F. Schermerhorn of Manhattan; in Manhattan...