Word: bay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles of "Islands in the Lesser Antilles. At St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands he got down. Speeches. When he left the following day a family of Morons, island aristocrats, petitioned the government to change the name of their property where the Spirit of St. Louis landed from Mosquito Bay to Lindbergh's Landing...
...rarely wrecked. Only the sturdiest, save in exceptional cases, go far to sea. Others are shrewdly, carefully sailed or navigated. Or perhaps yachtsmen are lucky. Among the rare disasters are: The father of W. A. W. Stewart, one-time commodore of the potent Seawan-haka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I., was lost with a party in a hurricane off the Florida coast about 25 years ago. The Liev Eriksson, from Norway to Newfoundland, with a party including William Washburn Nutting was lost off Iceland in 1924. Alain J. Gerbault, famed French tennis player, bound around the world...
...flock of strange, crested birds flapped jerkily, like tired oarsmen, westward from England to the Newfoundland Coast. They dropped to land, some to die immediately -bundles of white, bay and bottle green feathers. Some capered crazily on their spindly legs, soon to die with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength...
...last Sunday afternoon, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, there took place a significant ceremony. Representatives of American sport, professional as well as amateur, marched to the high altar to hear Bishop Manning formally assign the "sports bay" in the new Cathedral...
...entire bay of the nave of the Cathedral which is now rising was built by contributions from the sporting world. In token of that service stained glass windows in that bay will depict the finish of a horse race, two boxers squaring off at the gong, the follow-through at the end of a single to center field, and other episodes in a score of athletic fields...