Word: channelize
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With her Rolls-Royce engines throbbing sweetly, a "Flying British Foreign Office" lofted up from Croydon this week, swept off across the Channel. Aboard were crack Whitehall diplomats fluent in German, and Sir John Simon who was reported to have sighed: "I could talk with Hitler in French if he could talk French...
...only English landladies spoke French, and if only their English cooks knew something of haute cuisine, Frenchmen with gold francs would be tempted in droves across the Channel. Last week, with this in mind, the progressive Mayor of Blackpool had drummed up 28 landladies, was having them taught French, with French cooking to follow. First question and answer memorized by Blackpool's pucker-browed landladies...
...passengers had tickets for all six seats in the plane, explained that four friends were expected. The friends never arrived. After the take-off the girls complained of a draught, asked Pilot Kirton to close the door between cockpit and cabin. As he headed over the Channel in bumpy air, he opened the door again, looked back to see if his passengers were comfortable. The two girls were gone...
Married. Salvador Franco Urias, attorney; and Jesus Navarro; as proxies for Ludwig Lewisohn, author (Up Stream, Mid-Channel') and Thelma Bowman Spear, singer; in Juarez, Mexico, where in absentia Novelist Lewisohn obtained a divorce from his first wife, Mrs. Mary Arnold Crocker Childs Lewisohn, Author "Bosworth Crocker." In Poland eleven years ago Novelist Lewisohn obtained a rabbinical divorce, the validity of which has since been questioned. He married Miss Spear, begat a child. The Mexican divorce and proxy marriage were an attempt to legalize his position. Mrs. Lewisohn I, who in 1924 obtained a separation providing $55 a week...
...Since Italy is minute, Britain monstrous, the London talks may still be of greater importance than those at Rome, but to be sure of wasting no time M. Flandin, a driving worker, busied himself with a great cleanup of State business in Paris last week before he crossed the Channel...