Word: vessel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haley's fame was shortlived, for up popped Dr. Harold D. Gillies, a physician for the King of England, a famed golf theorist who tees his ball almost a foot high, who uses a monster-headed driver, who has studied the function of every muscle, nerve and blood vessel necessary for club-swinging. Dr. Gillies' favorite stunt is driving balls neatly off perpendicular beer bottles...
...Thus did Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the Supreme Court interpret last week the 1925 liquor treaty between the U. S. and Great Britain. Said he: "To give immunity to the cargo and guilty persons on board would be to clear those whose guilt should condemn the vessel and to restore to them the liquor and thus release for another opportunity to flout the laws of a friendly government which it was the purpose of the treaty to discourage." As a result of this decision, the captain and four members of the crew of the British ship, Quadra...
...Tiger (Milton Sills). On a sea-swept island off the coast of Spain, lives Justin Ramos (Milton Sills) captain of a fishing vessel, hardfisted, passionate, intent upon the affections of Amy (Mary Astor). To win her, he batters many men into hasty submission, generally employing for this purpose a righthanded, crunching, demoralizing and incapacitating haymaker, after the manner of Milton Sills since the time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Finally, he chucks his ladylove under the chin, drags her to church and enters holy matrimony...
...blunders,* and undertook to explain the game as to a novice. Mr. Link grew indignant. So did Mr. Summers, petulant tutor. Mr. Link retorted sharply. Mr. Summers arose and shook Mr. Link by the neck in mock fury. Mr. Link collapsed, died two hours later of a ruptured blood vessel. Mr. Summers, pleading "a playful scuffle," was lodged in jail, alleged manslaughterer...
Died. Captain John Bartlett, 83, who introduced 62 years ago the first steam vessel into Newfoundland sealing expeditions; uncle of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, of Peary's polar expedition, and who himself accompanied Peary on his first expedition; at Fredericton...