Word: sail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since developing from a painfully shy, homely gosling and an inhibited, inferior-feeling wife and daughter-in-law, into a self-confident swan of a woman with the nation for her pond, she has learned to sail through life with serenity. In the rarefied top stratum of official existence, where one can see anything, learn anything, go anywhere, get almost anything done, she wastes no chance to compensate for long years of being (by her own account) a cloistered nobody...
Uncertain whether he would reach Rome before the doors to the conclave are locked (probably between February 25 and March 1), Cardinal O'Connell this week was to sail for Italy. His colleagues, George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago and Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, departed last week...
Also scheduled to sail from England for the U. S. this week on the same mission is titian-haired, 40-year-old Stephanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfürst, confidante of the Führer and friend of half of Europe's great. Since the fall of Austria, Princess Stephanie, once the toast of Vienna, has lent her charms to advancing the Nazi cause in circles where it would do the most good...
Last week an amateur radio operator in Bremerton, Wash., (about 11,000 miles from St. Paul), picked up a garbled message from L'lle Bourbon: "Ran Short Of Coal Due Bad Weather . . . Hope Madagascar Will Send Rescue. . . ." Expecting the worst, the French Government ordered a rescue ship to sail at once from Madagascar...
...ships that sail the North Atlantic, only ten belong to the U. S. Lines. But in the past 15 years hundreds of imperiled seafarers owe their lives to the hail-fellow flag that the fleet flies from its Johnny-on-the-spot main masts...