Word: vincente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ajax No. 1, a 74-gun ship of the line of 1,619 tons built at Plymouth in 1767, fought Admiral de Langara under British Admiral Rodney off Cape St. Vincent, Spain, when the British destroyed the Spanish Fleet in 1780. In 1782 that Ajax fought in the Battle of the Saints, in the West Indies, under Rodney again, against France's Admiral de Grasse, who was taken prisoner. Ajax No. 2, an 80-gun line-of-battle ship built at Rotherhithe in 1798, took part in the British investiture of Alexandria in 1801, but did little sea-fighting...
Arrested by immigration officers was Prince Nicholas Obolensky, chess player, art lecturer and man-about-Manhattan (third cousin of Vincent Astor's ex-brother-in-law, Prince Serge Obolensky), for overstaying his welcome...
There he got backing from a 21-year-old graduate of Tulane University's school of journalism, John Thistlethwaite, scion of an old Opelousas family, and Vincent Moseley, who last fortnight ran fifth in Louisiana's five-man gubernatorial primary (TIME, Jan. 29). Day before Christmas, with young Thistlethwaite as publisher, young Fitzgibbon as managing editor, the Opelousas Daily World brought out its first (Sunday) edition...
Gawky, cadaverous Sinclair Lewis, rehearsing his third stage role, as the canon in Paul Vincent Carroll's Shadow and Substance, overrode the veto of his technical adviser, the Rev. Edward Murphy, performed in a redlined, red-piped cape (correct for monsignors) on the ground of "good theatre...
...student from each college in the Greater Boston area, including Harvard, and one member each of the Vincent Club and the Junior League, will be chosen for the finals and the winners will compete in the Boston Gardon before the Birthday Party crowd to the music of Isham Jones...