Word: gunboat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago blue-eyed Princess Ileana of Rumania ran her small yacht . on a sand bank in the Black Sea and waited, fogbound, fog-frightened, until rescued by a gunboat from Constanta. Last week, fog-free and thankful, she presented a handsome silver candelabrum to the many domed Cathedral of Constanta. Her pious inscription...
...from whence to expect attack. At one tragi-comic moment he hustled 30,000 troops aboard transports and sent them sailing around the nether edge of China to Canton, only to order them, all home again when the trouble there proved a false alarm. Last week, however, the presidential gunboat sailed with definite purpose up the broad Yangtze to the great inland city of Hankow...
Princess Ileana of Rumania, sailing her yacht from Balcik to Constanta, ran aground on a Black Sea sand bank. The escorting gunboat Lieutenant Dimi-rescut, coming to the rescue, also ran aground, tugged, pulled, finally freed itself and Ileana's yacht...
...their lives across the sluggish Yangtze-kiang. Meanwhile other "Generals" made a great show of trampling on their revolutionary banners, and deserted to the Nationalist standard of advancing Marshal Chiang Kaishek. There was absolutely no resistance at Hankow when spruce Marshal Chiang stepped ashore from a Nationalist river gunboat described as the flagship of so-called Grand Admiral Yang Shu-chwang...
...height of the uproar, with both sides deadlocked, the federal gunboat Progresso steamed into the harbor and furiously pumped shells in the direction of the rebel lines...