Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leviathan steamed into New York harbor, last week, her skipper, Captain Harold Cunningham, pounded a table to the delight of ship news reporters and roared: "The theft did not happen aboard my ship. It's all a lot of damned British propaganda...
Married. Lucy Leffingwell, daughter of Russell Cornell Leffingwell, Morgan partner; to Thomas John Edward Pulling of Santa Barbara. Calif.; at Cold Spring Harbor, L. L, Rector Peabody of Groton School officiating...
...ferry pier in Manhattan a crowd of commuters waiting for the boat that would take them to Staten Island saw a line of small boats come round the curve of the harbor. They were racing, each boat a dark point capping a triangle of spray; the commuters looked on with interest. Suddenly one boat choked, caught fire; the men on board could be seen working wildly, throwing something on the burning engine. The other boats swept on, then in a feather of foam one swerved, capsized; a coast guard cutter raced out to pick up the men in the water...
...undershirts, with brickbats, bludgeons, paving stones, knives and guns, the sluggers ganged up: Plug Uglies, Dead Rabbits (then slang for rowdy toughs), Shirt Tails, Roach Guards, Gophers. Besides aimless roughhouse, just for the hell of it, they conducted elaborate hold-ups with prostitutes as decoys, robbed ships in the harbor, pilfered the Hudson coast villages, wreaked vengeance on interfering rival gangs, and assisted forcefully at Tammany elections. This valuable service was munificently rewarded by police connivance, practical immunity from prison, and a generally healthful atmosphere for thugs and thuggery...
...misfortune was made complete when Fate snatched from him his wife . . . lost when the Yacht Lucullus sank in collision with the British Steamer Adria off Constantinople harbor...