Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabin Boy Paul Johnson, who had just emerged from the "glory hole," was swept overboard clutching a shipmate's spectacles. Steward Schwerdtfeger grasped Mrs. William Buckler by one foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed...
...swept the water, and depth charges thudded everywhere. But no light, no charge found Prien's raider and he wriggled out of the harbor as he had come, after executing perfectly a feat to rank with Stephen Decatur's burning of the frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli (1804), William Barker Cushing's torpedoing of the Albemarle in Plymouth, N. C. (1864), Commander M. E. Nasmith's penetration of the Dardanelles with the submarine E11 (1916), Commander Luigi Rizzo's sneak shot from a motorboat with a torpedo into the Austrian battleship Szent-Istvan at Trieste...
Also on French soil last week was Britain's Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. He bustled through the base fields, interviewed pilots who had seen action, said bonjour to one of their landladies by way of improving international relations. Correspondent William Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "A howling, 50-mile-an-hour gale and a soggy airdrome did not prevent one young gallant from going up and putting on a hair-raising show for us this noon 'just to show that we don't mind the weather.' For half an hour he dived...
Correspondent William Watts Chaplin of I. N. S. reported seeing a distinguished British officer lay a wreath on a grave marked with his own name in one of the great World War I cemeteries near the front. The grave contained the officer's amputated leg, believed to be all that was left...
There were some bad accidents in the mines, and Earl Jones did not like the way the Zanesville morning Times-Recorder and evening Signal (both owned by Father William Oliver, Sons Orville Beck and Henry Clay Littick) reported what happened. Nor did he like it when the Litticks played up several suits against him-one for damage allegedly done by his mine wastes to adjoining lands...