Word: excursioners
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The Vagabond, retreating from the snow flurries to the airy warmth of his tower, meditates by preference on those not-so-spacious but still glamorous days when Leicester's barge moved down the Thames in the evening, when a bribed servant brought a certain ring to Elizabeth on the morning...
There was a clatter of iron hooves over the London cobbles, a flutter of knightly plumes under the royal gates, and the commoners of London, "the poor mechanicals" of the poet, ran out from their shops and gaped down the street at Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex come from...
When he arrived at the Union Station to board his B. & O. special the President looked drawn and tired. On his way home in 1928 he had traversed this same route. Then he called it "My Own Main Street.'' Then he talked only of Republican prosperity. Now he...
In Boston last week Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky presented a new Carpenter work called Patterns, in which shy John Alden Carpenter made his first appearance as a piano soloist. Boston's symphony subscribers went to the concert with high expectations. Composer Carpenter had delighted them before with Adventures in a...
The Observation's victims were brought to the ferry house at 134th St. In that same place 28 years ago were laid out the bodies of 1,021 children, teachers, parents who. bound on a Sunday-school picnic, were burned or drowned when the excursion steamer General Slocum caught...