Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gold Ship. The Lamport & Holt liner Vestris, built in Belfast in 1912 and measuring 495 feet in length, 10,944 tons, plied between New York and Buenos Aires, stopping at the Barbados and way points. Because shipments of gold, sometimes valued at as much as $3,000,000, were often sent on her between Argentine and New York banks, she was referred to as "the Gold Ship." She was named for Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris, English actress...
Phases of contemporary America will be brought in a moving show to the great Forum that is the Yale Bowl tomorrow. What place the market fairs of Lyons yesterday filled or the medieval fields of the cloth of gold, the growth of the football stadia more adequately supplies for a nation of stockholders. Furs, fine fabrics, fair women, the light and shadow of autumn, the iridescent color minglings of eighty seated thousands form the tableau at New Haven. It appears new and of certain splendor. Yet the first roar that greets the raising of the grate for the two opposing...
...came her great triumph when she made her debut in a leading role at the Metropolitan. Papa Angelo was there, wiping away proud tears, and Mayor Michael Landers of Lawrence, to give the stamp of civic authority. Twelve times the audience called her out in front of the great gold curtains, thundered its applause. Next day a typical story named her as "the latest American Cinderella to find her golden slipper there...
...Blettsworthy, supercargo, found ship's quarters confining, and ship's officers hostile. The horizon, interminably empty, offered no distractions from his recent troubles; the officers, continually quarreling, added to the gloom. The captain, who by all standards of sea-lore should have concealed a heart of gold beneath his rough exterior, revealed, by persistent bullying, his petulant nature. Moreover he consumed his soup with a sibilant hiss. Blettsworthy, mimicking him, incurred a wrath that culminated horribly: the ship was wrecked off the stormy Patagonian coast; all hands were escaping by boat; the captain, before clearing, locked his supercargo...
...President Grant had cancer of the throat. A curious historical coincidence: the great problem of his incumbency was also fiscal-to reestablish the gold par value of U. S. greenbacks...