Word: channelize
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...tilted funnels spewed enough smoke and steam at roaring forced draft to perceptibly darken the "blue." Behind lay British East Africa and the small, busy port of Dar-Es-Saalam, where Edward of Wales had taken ship. Ahead, beyond the Red Sea, beyond the Mediterranean, beyond Europe and the Channel lay the beloved Sovereign of an Empire. Radio flashes told that pleurisy had been followed by pneumonia, complicated by Bright's disease...
...great number of alumni who deplore the destruction of the goal posts after a victory in the modern way and I should like to suggest that it is quite possible to build goal posts, which will resist the enthusiasts after a game. A grillage of channel beams with steel gussets riveted to the up fights would serve. With engineering in the place of good manners we could have the old march under the goal posts which used to finish the games so handsomely. Kenneth Conant...
...stalks Beatrice Lillie to be jostled by a bus queue for five minutes of mute martydom, wherein the only betrayal of her cold, furious resentment is a sublime, rancid smirk, and at long last a fervent "Taxi!" Nine times in all she appears, and whether it is the channel swimming scene ("Oh, pul-lease!"), or her deceptively wistful "I'm World Weary," or the Paris in 1890 scene ("They call me La Flamme because I make men mad"), she is never allowed to leave the stage until her audience is too weak to protest...
THESE two volumes of the papers of Colonel House surpass in interest and importance even the published in 1926. With the entry of the United States into the War the Colonel became the channel of unofficial communication between the governments of the associated powers and President Wilson. By a private telephone connecting the State Department with his study in New York or Magnolia, Colonel House communicated suggestions and advice to President and Cabinet. To him rather than to the accredited diplomats turned Allied statesmen who wished Wilson's ear. "Balfour, speaking for the British Government, could get an answer from...
...returned to Paris, so unobtrusively that even the press did not at first chronicle his coming. After a lengthy conference with French Prime Minister & Finance Minister Raymond Poincaré, Mr. Gilbert wired London, with the result that Chancellor Churchill set out for France-encountering very dirty weather on the Channel-and arrived upon the doorstep of the British Embassy in Paris...