Word: blissfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...burning yacht is a sorry sight. The scene in Sydney was doubly sorry because the yacht was the Marabel, a pleasure craft which had just been remodeled as a hospital ship and given by Miss Susan Dwight Bliss of Manhattan to the hospital at Indian Harbor, Labrador, a unit of Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfells famed and farflung medical missions. The Marabel was laden with winter supplies for hard-working doctor- preachers. The women burned were Grenfell volunteers, the Misses Harriot Houghteling of Chicago, Ill., and Margaret Pierce of Haverford...
...Robert Lansing, General Tasker H. Bliss, Colonel E. M. House...
General Tasker Howard Bliss, U. S. Army (retired...
Tasker Howard Bliss: A general who has held the high posts of Chief of Staff and member of the Supreme War Council: a warrior who in peace seeks the means to prevent...
...ANGLING is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so," said Izaak Walton; and Bliss Perry's three essays on fishing seem abundant proof of this statement. Only a born angler could write with such gusto, or make the subject seem so alive to the reader. Three essays--"Fishing with a Worm," "Fishing with a Fly," and "Revisiting a River"--make up this book; all appeared in the Atlantic Monthly...