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Then, the U.S. Coast Guard sank the British auxiliary schooner I'm Alone, and killed one of her crew, an indefinite distance off the Louisiana coast near "Sixty Deep." Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone...
Every few moments the guests sprang up, raised brimming glasses toward the white oriflamme of the Admiral's forked beard, and downed a deep health to the man whose famed policy of "sea-frightfulness" brought the U.S. into the War. Smiling pinkly behind his white whiskers, the Grand Admiral toped in response to each toast, declared at last to correspondents with perfect poise and pontifical gravity: "Despite the stark materialism of the present day, there still remains in Germany the germ of something that will get us out of the slough...
...color range is limited and there are no circus tints. But often, with deep browns and blues, cream, dull reds and yellows, the tones seem caused by years of exposure to the decorative whims of nature rather than by a deliberate, conscious process...
...struck out five of the six men who faced him. Phineas Tobe '32, his opposing pitcher, except for the first two innings, kept things well under control. Tobe later on also figured heavily in his team's scoring when he cracked out a home run to deep right...
...Portland, Ore. Seeking elite patronage, Fritz -& Russell used to advertise: "See the largest bar in the world, lined with the working giants of the woods, taking their glasses of beer and telling tales of the forest. See the jolly tar, fresh from his ship, spinning tales of the deep blue sea." These sights van'she 1 when Oregon went...