Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next high moment of the evening came when Feldmarschall Mackensen, his white mustache fluttering with his earnestness, addressed the assembly crisply as follows...
Holland. Dykes, windmills were smashed, thousands of acres flooded. Into The Hague limped the tug White Sea, Captain Verscheor, master, famed tugster who pulled the 50,000-ton world's largest floating drydock from Britain to Singapore, early this year, having lost his haul for the first time in, his career. Off Borkum Reef, the 200-foot drydock that he was towing last week reared high on two gigantic waves, broke in two, sank. Brave Captain Verscheor, bruised and bleeding from being smashed against the rails of his bridge, stood by to rescue all nine of the foundered drydock...
...gentle overture to January's five power naval conference, the British Foreign Office issued a "White Paper" last week.* Bearing the signature of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Henderson, it was strongly reminiscent of the quixotic reasoning of James Ramsay MacDonald in his more elfin moments. Discussing that bugaboo of Anglo-U. S. naval agreement, the question of Freedom of the Seas and rights of neutrals in wartime, the paper read...
...White Paper" is any brief government report to the British Parliament printed in a small unbound pamphlet (50 to 100 words), not unlike a U. S. congressional committee report. A similar but more pretentious document is the "Blue Paper," bound in blue covers...
...were left open so that the public might gaze once more upon some of the oldtime heraldry of Imperial Germany. The hall blazed with medals and the bright colors of bygone dress uniforms ? the blue and red of the infantry, the blue and gold of the navy, the white, green, black, blue, yellow and pink of the cavalry. Feldmar-schall Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks, his dry, jockeylike figure erect as ever despite its years. The long-necked, chinless figure escorting him was. of course, the boy?now a middle-aged...