Word: downes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The paraders trudged by the White House, turned around before the State War & Navy Building and were starting back when city and White House policemen swooped down to arrest them. The charge: Parading without a permit. Singing the "Internationale" and jeering a White House motor car, they were marched off...
A painted ship upon a painted ocean is the Ambrose. Until last week she had not moved, except up and down with the tides, for 22 years. The steam that has been up in her boilers all that time was at last put to work, the pinochle game of a...
From her pinprick on the world's charts of New York Harbor, off which she has lain to warn the ships of the world of a guardian shoal, the Ambrose steamed southeastward?for 1? mile. Then down went her bebarnacled anchor-&-chain once more.
Several other people had stumbled on the party in the corridor. One of them, George A. Durnford, the head keeper, had been shot and killed when he tried to run. A keeper named David Winney had dodged the bullets by falling down and rolling through a doorway. He had sent...
At twilight the machine guns on the walls were quiet, still waiting. A thousand people and a regiment of militia were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with...