Word: berengaria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tempest's end, U. S. citizens home for Christmas disembarked, sleepless, stiff, scared, after the worst crossing any of them had ever remembered. Passengers on the ponderous Berengaria told how their ship rolled till sea water dashed over the funnels, how the steel walls of the rudder house had been squashed like a sardine tin. The Bremen, world's fastest liner, was forced to crawl for two days at five knots per hour, pouring oil on the water. In mid-ocean a gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor...
...Berengaria she danced with Thomas Mellon (nephew) of Pittsburgh. "I'm not particularly fond of dancing. ... I don't dance at all in London...
Bernard Mannes Baruch, financier-philanthropist, chairman of the Saratoga Springs Commission of the State of New York, returned to the U. S. after inspecting medicinal springs in Germany, declared: "There were eleven men in the first cabin in the Berengaria who went to Germany to take the cure. They could have saved time and money by taking the waters of Saratoga and have received every bit as much benefit as they did abroad...
...came and approved the Hoover offer Scot MacDonald hesitated no longer. For more than a month he had been unable to say definitely whether or not he would visit President Hoover in Washington to cement the naval bond. Now correspondents were called in, were told that when the Berengaria noses out of Southampton on Sept. 28 she will carry apple-cheeked Miss Ishbel MacDonald and her potent sire...
...made his fortune, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City was arrested for contempt. Last week his great & good Democratic friend Vice-Chancellor John J. Fallen of New Jersey quashed his arrest as unconstitutional. Promptly Mayor Hague sailed for Europe in the imperial suite of the S. S. Berengaria...