Word: bay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manila Bay was thunderous with gunfire. Weaving skeins of smoke twined about the embattled fleets. There lay the Spanish defenders, here the besieging U. S. Pacific Fleet, a brood of assorted fighting craft clustered about their proud flagship U. S. S. Olympia. On the battle-stripped U. S. Revenue Cutter McCullouch one Edward Walker Harden, a young newsgatherer on a lark (with Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon), swelled with patriotic rapture as he watched Spanish ship after Spanish ship founder. To him the dimly-seen U. S. S. Olympia, hulled five times and her rigging shot away, was the epitome...
...obscure Newsman Harden gave the New York World a scoop on the battle of Manila Bay. Last week Mr. Harden, now a potent New York banker (James B. Colgate & Co.), was saddened by the ignominy in store for old battleship Olympia...
...Draper, George Cohan is not interested in getting intimate with Mazie. He has been informed in the first act that his ward, the daughter of a defunct pal, has been mysteriously murdered. Her debauched fiance has been acquitted in a trial. Al Draper, anxious to bring the murderer to bay, fastens his suspicions upon two girls, one the previous mistress of the acquitted fiance, the other her friend whom he cajoles into sharing an apartment with him in the hope of finding her to be a criminal. The mistress of the fiance of his murdered ward, he installs elsewhere with...
Absent from his august seat was Arthur J. O'Keefe, monster (300 lb.) Mayor of New Orleans. The tribulations of the strike had worn him to a frazzle, threatened him with a nervous breakdown. On "leave of absence" he had gone to his summer home at Bay St. Louis, Miss., 50 miles away, to loll in the warm waters of the Gulf...
...wing to feather the water. He figured out a way of overcoming the effect of the torque. The propeller sucked something up from the water and bent itself, an unforseen event. Later, leisurely, safely and, if possible, secretly Lieutenant Williams was to actually fly his Mercury along Chesapeake Bay before taking her to England for his mightiest air exertion...