Word: sailing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than $1 per hair for what he has left...
Clearly the existence of such a state of mind meant that last week "The City" was putting heavy pressure on the Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and through him on Chancellor Snowden. As Mr. Lamont left London to sail on the Olympic for Manhattan, his cheerful air kindled confidence among businessmen that "The City" would yet put things right...
...Chang Tsung-chang and his harem.'' As every Chinaman knows, Ugly Customer Chang is the rapacious former Chinese War Lord of Shantung. He taxed and stole $10,000,000 cash out of that luckless province before the Chinese Nationalists drove him out (TIME, Sept. 24). Insatiable, he set sail from Japanese waters last spring with a privateering expedition, recaptured part of Shantung, terrorized banks and merchants into yielding him more gold, was finally driven out a second time (TIME, April...
Mariners who sail into Liverpool in future years will behold vast spires shining through the smoke of the seaport. Last week Most Rev. Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool, announced that, after years of subscription by Catholics rich and poor, nearly $1,000,000 had been raised, enough to begin work on the long-antici-pated Liverpool Cathedral. What the Archbishop added was exciting to religious folk. Said he: "Hitherto all cathedrals have been dedicated to saints. I hope this one will be dedicated to Christ Himself with a great figure surmounted on the cathedral visible for many a mile...
...matches (see p. 56). Present there was Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to have driven him off on his travels. Last week M. Gerbault said: "I think I shall stay ashore for a while now." When he does sail again he will go to live and die in Polynesia, "most perfect country...