Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Ramsay. Since 1932 the United Kingdom and the Free State have been engaged in a bitter tariff war, each deliberately rigging its schedules to hurt the other as much as possible. Another old sore is Free State resentment at the United Kingdom's continuing to maintain British harbor defenses, "on Erin's sacred...
...Jack Morgan never forgot his ambition, was often observed prowling around yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa Barbara photo shop and hotel, Dwight Faulding was once rich and foolish enough to have bought a plane which he took up without a single flying lesson, crashed spang into a Santa Barbara street...
Hardheaded, slippery Hero Ulysses left home with his mother's blessing when he was six. At 18 he had been a bootblack, a harbor scavenger, a hashish peddler in the brothels of Alexandria. His next move was to embark for Africa with a stock of liquor for the British army in the Sudan. At Khartoum he saw Chinese Gordon killed by the Moslem Mahdi, became the Mahdi's finance minister and political adviser for ten precarious years that included his forced marriage to a captive nun in an obscenely burlesqued ceremony. Meanwhile he had become Kitchener...
...suit.* An unofficial record of 361 feet was established in 1916 in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Previous official record was 306 ft., set in 1915 by Frank Crilley of the U. S. Navy who reached the submarine F-4 at the bottom of Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...
...Peter Blume became one of the most talked-of U. S. artists (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). South of Scranton was the result of driving a flivver in that direction one spring, through Pennsylvania's hills of coal and slag into the Blue Ridge Mountains and east to Charleston Harbor. From what he remembered most vividly Blume made a composition of contrasts : trains crawling in industrial valleys and a German cruiser's crew doing exuberant calisthenics in the sea breeze off Charleston. To show how exuberant they were he made one or two of them appear to be taking...