Word: waterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invention of "showersols," a practical device which no doubt will be patented by some one of the few spectators at Hot Water, which eventually brings her victory over janitorial and other diffi culties. ''Showersols" are collapsible umbrellas. A kind, rich friend of Duckie's takes to manufacturing them, thereby providing Duckie with wealth and a moral value for the play, which has little value of any other kind...
Today the fastest and most expensive rail-water-rail crossing via Dover-Calais takes seven hours, while the cheap popular route via Southampton and St. Malo requires 18. To motor from Paris to Le Bourget, fly to Croydon, and motor to London takes two and a half hours...
...mere pittance of 40 guineas ($200) a week, the Crown will rent sumptuous Craigwell House, in Aldwick Village near Bognor-on-Sea. A private beach, an electric organ, a private cinema-theatre, and hot & cold running salt & fresh water will be at His Majesty's disposal. Ap propriately enough, the owner is Sir Arthur Du Cros, President of Dunlop, Ltd., famed tyre makers, vaunters of the slogan: "As British As The Flag!" Dyspeptic persons addicted to taking Beecham's Pills espe cially rejoiced, last week, for Sir Arthur is also a director of "Beecham...
...velocity of 65 miles per hour whipped the North Atlantic into mighty combers. Seven hundred miles off the Virginia Capes wallowed the little Italian freighter Florida, bound for Naples. Its steering gear was broken, it was inundated by ferocious seas. For four days the crew lived on fruit and water. Frantically Capt. Giuseppe Favaloro flashed SOS signals. Several nearby vessels received them. But, not having radio compasses, which indicate the direction from which signals come, these ships could not locate the Florida...
...long sailed Capt. Fried. At nightfall his searchlights revealed the Florida dead ahead. A miracle had been accomplished by radio science. The Florida, listing sharply, with one rail under water, had been changing its position constantly because its engines were still slowly turning over. But Fried and his Kolster were in time...