Word: gondolas
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...East Hampton, L.I., the twelve-passenger, 40-ft. gondola, once a dazzling black and gold, in which Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning were poled around Venice in the 1850s, would be fixed up to glide again.† Willed to the village library by the. late Miss Alice Moran (her father picked it up in Venice in 1890 for $2,000), it had rested for a couple of decades under some tarpaper on the Moran lawn. The library didn't know quite what to do with it. The Ladies Village Improvement Society, which sponsors an annual summer fair...
...gondola's literary value was largely catalytic: the poem In A Gondola deals with thoughts of love...
Conservatives. In Venice, 400 licensed gondoliers asked the city fathers please to bar motorboats from the Grand Canal, to preserve 1) the prestige of the gondola; 2) the foundations of the buildings; 3) the lives of tourists...
...feet. It was broken again in 1935 by Orvil Anderson and Albert W. Stevens, U.S. Army Air Corps, who went to 72,395 feet in a sealed, spherical gondola like Piccard...
...home. An anonymous voice said: "You're going to get what the picket shanty got." Next day Pants Paschon and a score of fellow pickets watched a strange-looking train pull out of the T.P. & W.'s East Peoria yards. Ahead of the locomotive was an armored gondola. Behind the engine were three freight cars and a steel caboose. The train carried six crewmen, 14 guards and some guns...