Word: bannon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edmund Gilligan's Boundary Against Night (1938) was an ambitious, untidy, talented novel about the Boston Police Strike, included two Bannon brothers among its characters. White Sails Crowding is told by an earlier Bannon. No less high-blooded but tidier, it is a deliberately old-fashioned story of romantic adventure along the Grand Banks...
Young Sebastian Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders...
TIME was right in that he was commander-in-chief of the forces which captured Derna. In addition, these forces consisted of a Colonel Leitensdorfer, a Tyrolese colonel of engineers, a medical officer (probably Mendrici), Lieut. O'Bannon, U. S. Marines, Midshipman Pascal Peck, U. S. Navy, a Marine non-commissioned officer, six Marine privates, 25 cannoneers (including three officers), 38 Greeks (including two officers), Hamet, a friendly Arab, and 90 men, an Arabian cavalry detachment under Sheik El Tahik and about 200 footmen and camel drivers, 107 camels and a few asses...
...owns. Arthur Brisbane went to Milwaukee, bought the Milwaukee Sentinel (later taken over by Hearst who in 1929 sold it to Paul Block) and made Moe editor & publisher. Afterwards Hearst took Moe to New York. There in 1921 Moe got into partnership with a pair of gentlemen named Joe Bannon and Hugh Murray. Aware of the huge public that follows horse-racing and of the money that flows freely through that public in betting, they bought the Daily Racing Form, a tipster sheet published in New York, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco. As Racing Form flourished, they gathered together...
HARVARD YALE England, g. g., Van Winkle W. Wemple, r.f.b. l.f.b., Hersey Gummere, l.f.b. r.f.b., Bannon Waters, r.h.b. l.h.b., Curtis Robinson, c.h.b. c.h.b., Fawcett Eaton, l.h.b. r.h.b., Walther Schumacher, o.r. o.l., Brill Clos, l.r. i.l., Walcott Grover, c.f. c.f., Gallery Parker, i.l. i.r., Jordan Robbins, o.l. o.r., Maxwell...