Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last jobs in the Mediterranean was to serve as a beacon for the landing in Sicily. We had, as a kind of escort, a PC-boat. The Germans started to dive-bomb us, and old PC turned out to be a very enthusiastic man with his guns. He put up a very fine barrage...
...group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
...seek invitations to dances and capers. At such times as these, you can bet Beacon Hill...
...studied and dutiful, a shamefacedness before an unequivocal salute to a great man, and a hesitancy in striking out the dull gossip and malice. Only in his last chapters does Richard Aldington drop the irrelevancies of sophisticated comment and let himself go in praise of the "distant but steady beacon of common sense" whose simple words and direct actions glow through his book as they did through the anguished Europe of Wellington...
...representatives Osborne, is from Adams house and Beacon Hill Tibbetts of Lowell House and Winchendon, Perkins from Adams and South Dartmouth, and Boggs of Lowell and Groves, Missouri. The '46 men include Fry of Lowell and New York City, Dunn of Dunster and New York and Regan of Dudley and West Roxbury...