Word: viii
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some 400 miles east of Aden, on the coast of the Arabian Sea, a Commander Crauford of the British Navy found, he said, the lost city of Ophir, whence Solomon's navy fetched home 450 talents of gold? II CHRONICLES VIII...
...termed, by political opponents (Republicans), "George VI," for he is serving his sixth term as Arizona s governor and enemies see in his repeated terms a Hunt dynasty. They called him "George V" during his previous term, and now "George VI" says he hopes to make it George VII, VIII and IX before he dies...
...British journalist would have dared to say last week, on the 33rd birthday of Edward of Wales that he still looks like a callow Eton schoolboy. None would have added the idea that Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is as pink and paunchy as Henry VIII. Finally, few would have been so hardy as to gaze upon the strong, burly figure of Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead and then remark that if he would only carry an ax instead of a Malacca cane he would make a capital headsman...
...King Henry VIII who strolled about, ready to buss shy maids, was, of course, Chancellor Churchill. The scowling headsman, shouldering a "bloody" ax was the Earl of Birkenhead. Of the two simpering "little boys" in Eton jackets, turned down collars, pink bow ties and white socks, one was Prince George, 24, the other Edward of Wales...
Finally, in a garage in Omaha, he smiled at disappointments as he built the Bellanca VIII-a monoplane of large wing surface, with struts, fuselage and tail all designed to give great lifting power. People thought the plane a little queer. Nevertheless, it won 13 efficiency prizes, aided by a little Anzani motor which Mr. Bellanca purchased from a junkman for $75. As everyone now knows, the famed Columbia is a Bellanca VIII equipped with a Wright Whirlwind motor...