Word: christening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under which the had been built, anxious to get into the water as soon as possible, H. M. S. Formidable waited only for a crowd to gather, a band to tune its instruments and Lady Wood, wife of Britain's Secretary of State for Air, who was to christen the ship, to clear her throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping, the band burst frantically into Rule, Britannia. Resolutely Lady Wood hurled a bottle of wine after the retreating ship, shouted...
...unprecedented that a warship of one state should be christened by the wife of the head of another state. But last week, at Kiel, Mme Horthy was called upon to break a bottle of German champagne over the nose of the newest 10,000-ton German cruiser. "I christen thee the Prince Eugen!" she cried. Emotional Hungarians were deeply moved, for historic Prince Eugen was no German. More than two centuries ago under the Habsburg banner of the Austro-Hungarian dynasty he delivered the Danube valley from the Turks...
...Benito Mussolini prepared to christen a private plane at Rome's Lictor airport, his portly, placid wife Rachele Mussolini forbade him to break the champagne bottle on the propeller. Meekly II Duce touched bottle to craft, gave the champagne to attendants, who drank...
...moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived. Taking a firm grip on a ribboned bottle of champagne, she swung it briskly against the bow of what, in the Bath Iron Works, had theretofore been merely Hull No. 272. Cried she with faultless diction: "I christen thee Ranger." The hull slipped smoothly down its chute, flopped into the water, stern first, with a loud splash, and ten minutes later workmen swarmed aboard Ranger, warped back to the dock, to step her 163-ft. duralumin mast...
...Continuance of the present modes of persecution must seriously affect the good-will with which the people of Britain desire to regard the German nation," warned the Archbishop of Canterbury, before popping out of the Church Assembly to christen the six-week-old son of the Duke of Kent...