Cunard

/ kjuː'nɑːd /

noun

CunardSamuel17871865MCanadianBUSINESS: businessman Sir Samuel (1787–1865). Canadian shipping magnate, founder of the Cunard line

Gabor is a kind of Man Ray, Lily a mélange of Lady Diana Cooper and Nancy Cunard.

Wealthy, outrageous Nancy Cunard, who claimed to “speak as if I were a Negro myself,” is the easiest Miss Anne to caricature.

Today, Cunard is best known as the compiler and publisher of Negro: An Anthology (1934).

Plus, a trove of beautiful commonplace books by Lewis Carroll, Nancy Cunard and more, selected by The Harry Ransom Center.

I must ask you to leave my ship at once, gentlemen, and I can promise you that my employers, the Cunard ss.

In the words of a reporter, the place is equally capable of turning out a 'chronometer or a Cunard steamer.'

The “Cunard Line” of transatlantic steamers was established in the year 1840.

They were to start on a long journey, going in the Cunard steamer that sailed on the afternoon of the day.

But he lingered in vain; and presently a taxicab took him and his box to the Cunard docks, and deposited him there.

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