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...Moscow last week Mr. & Mrs. Davies said they were preparing to sail by ocean liner shortly to Manhattan, then sail back across the Atlantic in their enormous oil-burning yacht Sea Cloud, which can most decoratively unfurl itself into an old-fashioned four-masted bark. The Sea Cloud was the Hussar when Mrs. Davies was Mrs. Edward F. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935) and $95,000 duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts...
...good sign when the 6,000 delegates and their more than 11,000 sympathizers proceeded to burn huge piles of Made-in-England goods before sitting to business. Presiding hysterically over the bonfire, Pandit Nehru cried: "Hail, soldiers of Swaraj [Self-Determination]! Let your shouts ring out when I unfurl our banner (hoisting it). Soon strikes the hour of supreme sacrifice for our Motherland...
Where the British flags unfurl...
When the Business School moves into its new quarters across the Charles, all unpleasant obligations will be entirely removed. Then it will be the privilege of the business attendants, if they choose, to placard their buildings with purple exhortations to "Boost the Business School!", or to unfurl the banner of the Rotary Club from their flagstaff regularly each Wednesday afternoon...
...like the ancients. Indeed, you are perhaps greater than them all. You found our country a prey to anarchy and on the verge of dissolution, and you have brought her safely to port and are preparing to unfurl her sails and steer her to new conquests and glories...