Word: basins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gathering 76 points in four races, Harvard yachtsmen finished fourth in intercollegiate dinghy regatta sailed in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon...
Harvard's Yacht Club, Edward D. Fullerton, Jr. '37, Commodore, unfuris its sails in a Frost-bite Regatta with ten other college crows in the Charles River Basin at one o'clock Sunday. Edward B. Hutton '39, will tend the sheets in Fullerton's dinghy, while Chandler Hovey, Jr. '39, and James A. Rousmaniere '40, of local and Long Island Sound fame respectively, man a second boat...
...deeds of heroism that usually fill such memoirs. He loved flying for its own sake-to get up above the clouds and stare at the "level plain of radiant whiteness, sparkling in the sun" when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith...
...keelboatmen, voodoo, Lafitte the Pirate, riverboat gamblers, the Black Hand Society and the Mafia, most of his book is given over to the swift summaries of crimes of violence and to careful description of the histories, habits, earnings and untimely ends of the lost ladies who once crowded Basin Street and the district nearby. Typical of these case histories is that of Fanny Sweet, tall, homely, bespectacled girl who was thrown out of half-a-dozen of the toughest brothels in a tough city for bad behavior. Fleeing to San Francisco in 1849, she ran a haberdashery at enormous profit...
Divorced. Alexander Johnston Robertson, Manhattan stockbroker; by Mrs. Sylvia Conway Robertson, daughter of Chairman Carle Cotter Conway of Continental Can Co.; in Basin...