Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flagship since July. Like all ships, the Texas has her own history, at least one episode in which has never been officially published. One night during the War (so the sailors' story goes) the Texas was steaming full speed past Long Island. One of the deck officers on watch was a young Naval Reserve officer, in private life a wealthy yachting dilettante. The waters around eastern Long Island were as familiar to him as had been his nursery floor. When he saw Fire Island dead ahead of the Texas he knew what he saw and rushed from one to another...
...bums")?"You can't tell about bums. Some of us grow up and get refined and have our day. Then watch...
...reception hall. The crowd of stiffly dressed, excited diplomats caught their breaths as President Miguel Paz Barahona motioned him to the presidential chair. The U. S. youth, unsurprised, sat gravely down. Speeches. Hondurans coined for him a new nickname, "The Marvel Child." He was presented with a wafer thin watch hidden inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth hopped hurriedly into the cockpit...
...Hamilton Watch. For years President Charles F. Miller of the Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, Pa., was in that position, at once pleasant and irritating, of having greater demand for his products than he had facilities to supply. Last week he was in the totally pleasant position of having ample supply and ample demand, for he had completed the purchase, for approximately $5.000,000, of the Illinois Watch Co., Springfield, Ill. Much of the Illinois Watch shares come from the Bunn family of Springfield, descendants of Abraham Lincoln's good friends & political supporters...
...Ritz-Carlton yesterday afternoon Eddie Cantor, famous comedian of Ziegfeld's "Follies", proudly displayed a tiny gold football awarded to him for his services to the Crimson squad six years ago. "You bet, I'm one of the boys," he chuckled as he twirled the charm about on his watch chain, "and I'm proud of it. In 1922, on the eve of the Harvard-Yale gridiron battle, when the Crimson eleven was on pins and needles in New Haven, I grubbed with them and tried to cheer them up a bit. We had a great show and I promised...