Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capt. Harold A. Cunningham navigated the S. S. Leviathan westward from Cherbourg with a record-breaking number of passengers aboard (2,730). With millionaires bunking with the crew, dowagers traveling third class, Captain Cunningham wired a berth-seeking friend: "Would put you up in my own cabin but every locker is full. Reserving bottom shelf for you next trip...
...Mason & Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland (and its westward extension under the Missouri Compromise of 1820) once divided free States from slave. It still divides the North from the South on Negro treatment. Last fortnight portly, grey-wooled Oscar De Priest crossed it for the first time since he took his seat as the only Negro Congressman (from Illinois). He addressed 5,000 blacks at the Lexington (Ky.) Colored Fair...
Swiss. Two Swiss flyers, Oscar Kaesar, 22, and Kurt Luescher, 21, neither of them a navigator, flew from Lisbon, Portugal, toward New York last fortnight. A German steamer saw them near the Azores. No one has seen them since. Total number of flyers lost trying to fly the Atlantic westward...
...Piano. In the baggage room of the Graf Zeppelin on her westward trip this year (TIME, Aug. 12) was a grand piano. In the salon was Pianist Gregoire Gourevitch. He thought it would be appropriate to play Wagner's opus picturing the Valkyries' ride above the clouds while his audience was similarly situated. As the piano did not fit into the Zeppelin's salon, Pianist Gourevitch and the Valkyries had to wait for his concert last week in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza Hotel...
Lake Geneva is fed by Switzerland's snows and icy springs. But its chill did not deter Corry Liebbrand, 21, plump Dutch girl, from wading in at Lausanne early one morning last week. She stroked away westward. All that day she swam, all that night. She was lost for hours from accompanying boats. On she swam. The next evening she reached Geneva, 37¼ miles from her starting place. She is the only person ever known to accomplish the feat. Last year fat Georges Michel, channel-swimming French baker, attempted it, had to give...