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...abundant, with German dishes a specialty. All cabins were amidships, all had hot & cold running water, nearly all were outside, none had more than two beds. Just as on big ships, passengers could dance, play deck games, swim in a canvas pool, lounge in the smoking-room, bar, library, veranda cafe...
...history the "Paradise of the Pacific" was prepared to give Franklin Roosevelt a royal welcome. Its citizens were planning to put him up at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in the suite occupied three years ago by Siam's good King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni. There from his lanai (veranda) he could look out at the surfboarders and swimmers of Waikiki Beach. A hundred volunteer guides were eager to show him the huge fortifications on Diamond Head, the great naval base in land-locked Pearl Harbor (which he as Assistant Secretary of the Navy helped develop), a review of troops...
Leaning back in his chair on the sunny veranda of his mansion in Virginia whence he flies to Washington at frequent, intervals to confer with the President, General Mitchell took off his campaign hat and mopped his brow. "The trouble with aircraft companies in this country," he resumed, "is that they compete in terms of dollars and not of airplanes. If we had gone at it right, we could have airplanzed the world just as we motorized it. But now the European nations have achieved a big lead over us. The army Air Force is in terrible condition: they have...
...Hyde Park veranda under the warm spell of the President's personal charm, patient, loyal Secretary Hull forgot his injured pride, swore new allegiance to the Administration. Carefully he explained the whys & wherefores of the Conference collapse. Britain had been a disappointment. The foreign Press behaved outrageously. Europe wanted the best of every bargain. The President was most sympathetic, expressed complete confidence in his foreign minister, sent him away with a smile to prepare for another conference, that of the Pan-American Union in Montevideo in September...
...other day a Dartmouth freshman came to call. He lived down the street and his home-coming in June had been a pretty big event in the village. He came up on the veranda in a white shirt and white fiannels, smoking a pipe...