Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lost at the Front (Charles Murray, George Sidney). From Manhattan at the beginning of the War sail a German and an Irishman; the first to join the German army, the second the Russian, because of his love for a Muscovite sculptress. Meeting on the muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand...
...American embassy will sail on the S. S. Sluttgart on July 12 for Paris where it will attend an arbitration treaty with representatives of the French Youth Movements. Professor Sayre's treaty will be presented in person to the French students with an appeal for action, and it is hoped that, at a public ceremonial, the treaty will be signed by representatives of the youth of both nations. Over a half dozen colleges and universities will be represented by this expedition...
...distance runners have been doing light cross country work since the close of the regular season with the Intercollegiates on May 28 and 29, and yesterday they were joined on the Stadium cinders by the sprinters and weight men, all of whom will practice daily until they sail for England on June 25. Arrangements have also been made to enable the Harvard-Yale track men to continue practice on shipboard...
...American team will sail on July 5 and will spend a couple of weeks in England before engaging there Oxford-Cambridge opponents. The match with the latter will differ from the ordinary American college form of six singles and three doubles contests. Twenty-one individual matches will be played in all, extending over a three day period from July 31 to August...
...July issue of the World's Work begins the narrative of Count Felix von Luckner, one of those stray adventurers on the fringe of the Great War who prevented even that mechanical conflict from being without its heroes. The only officer in the German Navy who had served under sail, he was chosen to command a raider which, disguised as a neutral schooner, was to break through the Allied blockade. The Sea Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding...