Word: dot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treasure ship. But Murray has his way. The Santissima Trinidad, laden to the waterline with bullion, falls victim to the pirates off Hispaniola. From its deck, Master Ormerod carries the fair maid Moira to the Royal James. Then trouble begins. Half of the treasure is buried on -the sandy dot of land in the Caribbees, dangerous to shippingo the worst blasphemer : "A fool agreement, if you broach it now ! A of a piece of idiocy !" Flint buries the treasure sland. As a piece of literature, it falls short of Stevenson's, art. But the tale never lags ; it is bloody...
...Daily News (so called "gum-chewers' sheetlet") published his picture on its front page. Caption: "TRIED TO FORGET.?J. K. Mitchell 'heavy sugar papa' of slain Dot King, returned with wife from Europe yesterday. They're shown leaving ship here...
...York American (picture on inside page): " 'MR. MARSHALL' RETURNS?John Kearsley Mitchell, of Philadelphia, noted as the mysterious 'Mr. Marshall' of the 'Dot' King slaying case of last year and also of eminent social position and family connections, returns from European sojourn...
Dean Edgell's spirited defense of the jarring hits of questionable architecture that dot the Yard comes as a grateful balm to most loyal sons of John Harvard. Too often in the pat has it been necessary for Cantabrigians to hand their heads when confronted with photographic reproductions of the splendidly conceived structures that adorn the campuses of other more recent universities to the West and South...
...unfold the glittering wings of an active candidate? There was a press report abroad which said in so many words that by the middle of December 'Mr. Coolidge's boom would be loud in every state; his preconvention campaign manager and submanagers would be picked; their headquarters would dot the country...