Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public fancy was last week drawn, unexpectedly, to a romantic anachronism in U. S. travel-the oldtime river packet, built like a summer hotel on a flatboat, puffing smoke from tall twin funnels set near the flat round bows, slapping up the river mud with broad paddles set astern. The occasion was a race between the Betsy Ann and the Chris Greene, two packets plying the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Captain Chris Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short...
...third time in the history of the potent Astor tribe, a yacht named Nourmahal (Arabic for "Light of 'My Soul") cut the waters of New York Harbor. The new Nourmahal is the biggest and sleekest of them all-2,000 tons, 264 feet overall, twin-screw Diesel engines developing 3,200 horsepower, speed of 16 knots, all-steel hull. Skipper-owner Vincent Astor, Brother-in-law Prince Obolensky, several friends and crew of 45 had brought her from Kiel, Germany, where she had been built by the firm of Fried & Krupp from plans by Theodore E. Ferris, Manhattan naval...
...line on the upper reaches of the Mississippi. He then told them he favored private operation of that barge line, regarded Federal operation as an experiment. A delegation of railroad men, who wanted to express disapproval of the proposed Lakes-to-Sea waterway, arrived late by plane from the Twin Cities, missed their appointment. Before going back to Brule, President Coolidge inspected a 41-Ib. muskellunge which one W. R. Ross had caught at nearby Teal Lake, Wis. The President asked Fisherman Ross how he had caught it. Fisherman Ross gladly explained and asked the President to come catch...
Wheel of Chance. Richard Barthelmess plays twin brothers: one is an able district attorney; the other is an unfortunate youth on trial for the murder of his mistress. The outcome of the trial shall remain a secret in these pages. But it shall be revealed that the mistress (Margaret Livingston) meets a painful end. She was a bad woman who drove dozens of men to roulette and worse. In fact, the district attorney himself once thought of butchering her. The story is typical of the heart-twitchings of Authoress Fannie Hurst. There is a subtitle in it: "Life, like roulette...
...Nash. The first of the manufacturers to put autumn models on the market is the Nash Motors Co. They are sixes, grouped in three series. Prices range from $885 to $1,775. "Twin ignition,* high compression. . . . I don't think anyone will ever want to use all the speed and power they deliver," says President Charles W. Nash...