Word: channelize
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...driving run to Pulpit Harbor old salts gasped at the President's dexterity in zig-zagging the Amberjack II, rail down and all canvas drawing, through a labyrinth of coastal islands. Even the agile destroyers could not thread the risky channel at such breakneck speed, had to take to open water...
...last week, and in full uniform King George. Edward of Wales, the Duke of Gloucester and most of the Cabinet in levee dress stood on it waiting for a train. The train pulled in, and out stepped white-chinned King Feisal of Irak, who had been escorted across the Channel by four British destroyers, met at Dover by the Duke of York. Reporters admired his gleaming white tunic and his golden spurs. Guns banged a royal salute, and Kings, Cabinet Ministers and assorted princes rode down Buckingham Palace Road with a clattering cavalry escort. The welcome was not entirely...
...When Edward of Wales next crosses the Channel to golf, French socialites will present him with the stuffed and mounted head of Ostert who died last week in Le Touquet...
...like a Fascist and a gentleman." But there was so much fuss that Mussolini removed Balbo from the militia, let him cool off for a year or so. As Undersecretary of National Economy, he was a complete misfit. Finally Mussolini hit upon a plan for diverting into a useful channel his disciple's hot-bloodedness, ambition and ability as an organizer. He told him to learn to fly, gave him the Undersecretariat of Air. Disgruntled were famed Italian flyers who thought they rated the job. But Undersecretary Balbo was no swivel, chair cabinet officer. He learned to fly ably...
...plot of grass from which he might dangle his feet into the water with no one to blame him for it. Often he had sat there in the Spring and watched the sun play Lotto with the chubby red tower across the river, and later he had watched the channel lights on the bridges wink at themselves. Tonight, though, he had not been alone; a cur had laughed at his feet in the water, and whipped a tail in his eye, and besides, the green tower interfered with the sun's business. It was summer, and the Vagabond sighed...