Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a smart launch detached itself and cut shoreward from the side of the S. S. President McKinley as she steamed into Manila Bay. From the launch, which seemed the liner's emissary, stepped Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, emissary of the parent U. S. to the Philippines...
...GENERAL COURT of MASSACHUSETTS BAY...
...oldtime "I shot a buffalo here." After his labors, he dreams over an advertisement: "To live at American Venice is to quaff the very Wine of Life. ... A turquoise lagoon under an aquamarine sky ! Lazy gondolas ! Beautiful Italian gardens! . . . And, ever present, the waters of the Great South Bay lapping lazily all the day upon a beach as white and fine as the soul of a little child "Thus, the log cabin of the modern pioneer...
Stepping slowly behind, came a proud bay charger, the favorite mount of a Field Marshal who never forgot that he was first and always a cavalryman. Now Earl Haig's high black boots rested empty in the stirrups with their toes symbolically reversed...
Sadly leading the prancing bay steed walked Sergeant Secrett, personal attendant to Earl Haig for many a year, now clad in mufti, his breast ablaze with medals won in action, his eyes streaming tears which he did not brush away...