Word: genoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hottest news in sizzling Genoa last week was the final report of that thoroughgoing savant. Dr. Jean Charcot of L'Institut de France, upon Christopher Columbus, famed No. 1 Genoese...
...Bermuda. From New London, Conn., started 42 stout-hulled yachts, big and little schooners, ketches, sloops, some with modern sails, some with gaff rigs, Genoa jibs, fishermen's staysails, all bound for Hamilton, Bermuda. All were well provisioned, for sometimes it takes twelve days to get there. No boat has ever been sent out for stragglers; they all get in somehow. There have been accidents, torn sails, broken masts, but no one has ever been lost. Each captain picked his own course, looking for wind. First to reach Hamilton was Dr. George W. Warren's Yankee Girl...
...Genoa last week Italians laid the keel of their largest ship, the Rex, of 47,000 tons, designed to compare favorably in speed with the 49,746-ton Europa, the 51,655-ton Bremen...
...Genoa claims the birth of Christobal Colon, so do six other towns. Columbus' early life is wrapped in obscurity. Says Wassermann: he told conflicting tales about his origins, his early experiences. "He was as morose as a monk, crafty as a peasant, without a glimmer of humor-a character unrelieved by a single ray of cheerfulness. A man of sighs and lamentations, misery and gloom. But for all that, his capacity for suffering and his patience in the bearing of it were prodigious and are strangely touching, like stories from the life of a saint. He learned almost nothing...