Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Happy last week, were officers and men of the U. S. S. Utah as their ship rolled up from Rio, taking Herbert Hoover home. Capt. C. R. Train praised his men for having aroused not a single complaint during their shore leave in Brazil. Every man received a Christmas card autographed by President-Elect and Mrs. Hoover. Homecoming plans had been altered to make Washington, not Florida, the journey's end. Inasmuch as most of the Utah's personnel live closer to Hampton Roads than to Key West, the change meant that many of them could see wives...
...fourth Christmas that the Hoovers had spent at sea. The ship's carpenter had built a fireplace with red electric lights for coals. Capt. Train presented Mr. Hoover with a pair of binoculars, Mrs. Hoover with a blue and white Brazilian shawl. There was a Christmas tree and a Santa Claus. The Santa Claus (a disguised newspaper correspondent) hailed the President-Elect as "greatest fisherman," and presented him with a gift which he said would prove valuable. It was a toy fish labelled Congress. Mr. Hoover asked what bait was needed for this fish. Soft soap, said Santa...
...morning, when Le Train Bleu glided into Monte Carlo Station, His Highness Prince Pierre Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac, Due de Valentinois, and Comte de Polignac, stepped forth before suspicious, hostile eyes. Proud, race-conscious Monégasques (Monaco natives) despise Prince Pierre as a mere naturalized citizen of Monaco, and a black-hearted Frenchman under his skin. They sneer at the means by which he became Crown Prince-married into it, faugh...
...words officially spoken in Rumania since the War. They show, moreover, that the whole nation is solid in support of Boy King Mihai-or as Queen Marie calls him "Our Tender and Lovely Hope" (TIME, Nov. 26). Appropriately enough last week, King Mihai ignored his Parliament and played with trains-real trains. One locomotive with which he played was the first full-sized freight engine to be built entirely in Rumania. On the day after Parliament opened His Majesty was lifted into the cab of the freight monster-with Queen Marie watchfully present-and actually clutched and tugged...
...pathway or roadway swept, and one small gas street-lamp the only reminder of town life. It was a momentary vision of the vanished village of Cambridge: a moment affording a rare memory these days. To escape to the country now one must travel for thirty minutes in train or motor...