Word: coralled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were 2,400 pieces, sold at auction by the British Admiralty. The British Museum bought 289, all it could afford. German museums snapped up 1,085 pieces. The rest drifted to private hands. Most of the greatest pieces were portraits of kings in their high-necked coral headdresses. What kings it was impossible to say, for Benin had no written history until the coming of the English...
Benin today is part of British Nigeria, a prosperous city of 35,000 blacks with paved highways and scarcely a trace of the old City of Blood. Under British guidance a king still rules there. Though he affects the coral headdress of his ancestors and a curved executioner's sword still precedes him wherever he goes, he wears gold-rimmed spectacles, speaks with an Oxford accent, and was discovered last year seated in a rocking chair, reading Lord Chesterfield's Letters...
...When inquiries both at the State Department and the British Embassy drew blanks, newshawks began to do their own research. They discovered that the three bits of land had been claimed for the U. S. in 1860 under the terms of the Guano Islands Act. Jarvis, a treeless, scrubless coral patch less than two sq. mi. in area, was originally discovered by the U. S. sailing ship Eliza Thomas in 1821. In the days when the nitrates from bird-droppings were worth big money, Jarvis was an important place for guano hunters...
...York City Right is Reader Swain. Ballyhooer Bryan was paid at the rate of $75,000 a year for two years by George E. Merrick, promoter of Coral Gables. He received $100.000 cash, $50.000 in real estate. Mourned Promoter Merrick: "I wish I had him now."-ED. Same Meat Sirs: Need Hitlerite "Bait" Rosenberg waste all those words to explain a concept of holiness [TIME, Sept. 30]? Twenty-one years ago, it was compacted into the simple phrase, "Gott mit Vns." The world understood it then and still does understand it. And no matter how thin Spiritualist Rosenberg may slice...
...less of a sinecure was the rescue of the stranded ship. Though moving at only 9 m.p.h. when she struck, the 650-ft. liner had shoved her entire length onto the coral reef, was punctured in several places, seemed at first glance to have reached the end of her 27-year career. Still on board with a skeleton crew, harassed Captain Johan van Dulken yammered for tugs, kept one eye cocked on the horizon for their approach, the other on the sky for signs of bad weather, which he well knew would batter his ship to bits. For five days...