Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what they drive, say that a ship you are used to never feels quite the same after she has been handled a while by someone else. In the case of the S. S. Leviathan, the saying would hold specially true for a man who last handled her during the War, when her German name, Vaterlard, had just been erased and before she was remodeled to be the luxurious flagship of the U. S. Lines...
Captain Harold A. Cunningham, the Leviathan's present skipper, is such a man. But when last week, on his very first trip with the Leviathan since the War, his first trip as Commodore of the U. S. Lines, he ran his ship aground on Brambles Bank in Southampton Water, he was too good a sport and too proud a sailor to offer even an old saying for an excuse...
...Commons, Mr. Lloyd George spoke platitudes, but later he referred cockily to Prime Minister Asquith, under whom Mr. Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer when the War began. Said he: "On a solemn occasion like this I prefer to recall the days of our pleasant and, I think it would be admitted, fruitful association, when we were working together for great causes...
...Passed in preliminary form by the Senate, last week, was a bill providing that in time of war the Senators and Deputies "shall remain at their parliamentary duties" and not enlist...
Sneered M. le General Jean Stuhl during the debate: "I have still a vivid memory of the deplorable impression created among the poilus by the fact that too few Parliamentarians performed their military duty during the War...