Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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IRANI nosed over in the harbor of Horta "by an error of maneuvring," reported Balbo. One of its officers was killed, second to die in the second crackup since the squadron set out from Italy for the U. S. The accident was an excuse for General Balbo to decline a wearying round of ceremonies at Lisbon. However, he did find time for a bullfight in his honor, which he enjoyed so much that he gave his cigaret case to one matador, his revolver to another. In return he got a bull...
...they will be held strictly incommunicado until time to take off. Air Minister Pierre Cot, who only lately learned to fly, will not try to imitate Air Minister Balbo by leading the squadrons himself. General Joseph Vuillemin, chief of the air force in Morocco, will command. Weatherbound at Shoal Harbor on Trinity Bay, N. F. General Balbo announced last week that instead of following the North Atlantic route home via Ireland, he would head for the Azores and Lisbon...
...thousand Babbitts must live in Stamford. When the eastern sky is saffron, and the west is a slate blue, New York yawns, Banana vendors in Second Avenue push their carts through streets littered with humanity's debris, as Park Avenue tumbles into scented beds. Tugs hoot in the harbor, trains leave, planes arrive, the subway roars and the never ending round feverishly swings toward the stupid frenzied pitch of noon...
...Alec persuades his employer to give Terry a job. Terry gets drunk, makes embarrassing remarks about Alec's fondness for the employer's daughter. Finally one day when Annie is ashore trying to borrow money for new boilers, Terry takes the Narcissus for a spin in the harbor, rams a ferry boat while turning around to pick up a floating case of whiskey. The Narcissus has to be sold to pay the damages. Annie-by this time estranged from her son because she will not desert her inconvenient husband -is hired to stay on as captain...
...right with his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Archie Smith (no kin), but she objects decidedly to the cats. Protesting their "terrific odor," she lately went to the city commissioners. They decided to meet this issue squarely. In a stormy session they passed an ordinance forbidding Topekans to harbor more than five cats within 250 ft. of a dwelling. Fine for infraction...