Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rear Admiral John Crittenden Watson, U. S. N., 81, retired. He served under Admirals Farragut and Dewey, was representative of the Navy at the coronation of King Edward VII of England. He was often called "the man that lashed Farragut to the rigging," because, during the battle of Mobile Bay, he thus safeguarded his commander, who insisted upon remaining in the rigging for a view of the battle...
...song has just been added to the list of musical numbers being prepared for the play. Composed by A. A. Fisk '22, who wrote the 1922 Pi Eta music, the new song will be called "Back Bay Blues...
...father as 30th President of the U. S., will be commemorated in a painting by Walter Gilman Page of Boston, Chairman of the Massachusetts State Art Commission. Page has recorded all the details of the room-glass lamp, family Bible, old combination desk and bookcase, bowl of flowers, bay window and Col. John Coolidge himself-an interior full of pictorial, as well as historical, value...
...placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman [Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford] with his 20,000 men spread around the beaches, the front lines sitting on the tops of shallow trenches, smoking and cooking, with here and there an occasional rifle shot, others bathing by hundreds in the bright blue bay where, disturbed hardly by a single shell, floated the great ships of the war; on the other the skillful German [General Liman von Sanders] stamping with impatience for the arrival of his divisions, expecting with every hour to see his scanty covering forces brushed aside, while the furious Kemal [Mustafa Kemal...
...Oyster Bay, Mr. George laid a wreath upon the grave of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. Attached to his floral tribute was a card upon which Mr. George had written: " To the memory of an attractive and powerful personality, who fought the good fight with radiant valour...