Word: cross-channel
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Refreshed by this escapade, Alfonso boarded a cross-channel packet, set sail for England accompanied by his consort and their eldest son and daughter, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, 19, and the Infanta Beatriz...
...England the Thames overflowed disastrously at Windsor and notably throughout its entire valley. A cyclone passed over Western Scotland, and the Clyde overflowed at Glasgow. Only a single telegraph line was working out of Dublin, and at London, Edinburgh and Glasgow all overhead telephone lines were down. The cross-channel packets were buffeted by 40-foot waves...
...business ; will in due time be seen on the silver screen. It seems likely that the directions will be less explicit, in certain spots that the author, but the air-plane scene in which a lady pursues her (may be) lover into the fastnesses of a Vickers-Vimy cross-Channel plane when he tries, literally, to fly from her wiles, ought go well in the picture. They run into a terrible storm in the air; the lady is frightened-any gentleman would reassure her; and when at last the plane actually is safe-it's all up with the strong...
...flights, even under the disadvantage of severe winter conditions and in spite of the disturbing accidents which have in several instances resulted fatally. Those who are convinced that mail by airplane is foredoomed to failure point to the recent retirement of a British air mail concern from the cross-channel route on the ground that winter flying did not pay. Certainly aerial letter-carrying has not yet reached the point where it can be supported as a private enterprise; government aid is the only source which can keep it going. And until human ingenuity has devised some means of rapid...