Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Elijah K. West, 63, one of the crew of eight who maneuvered the collier Merrimac to Santiago's Harbor during the Spanish-American War, blew her up in an unsuccessful attempt at blockade;* after a brief illness; in Hillsborough, N. H. Rejected as a volunteer to man the Merrimac, West swam out to her as she was leaving the fleet, was dragged aboard...
...presented them in an informal revue called New Faces. Making allowances for the cast's inexperience, critics found it on the whole pleasant entertainment, chiefly commendable for its impudence. Last summer Producer Sillman took his whole troupe to New Rochelle, settled them in a boat tied up in a harbor off Long Island Sound, put on a sequel called Fools Rush In. Last week he brought it to Broadway...
...Betty Gow, from whose care the world's most famed baby was snatched on the windy night of March 1, 1932, was returning to the U. S. Surrounded by all the melodrama of a penny-dreadful, Nurse Gow, it was whispered, was to be met in New York Harbor by a police launch, spirited away to a hotel. There she was to be kept incommunicado until time for her to testify at what promised to be one of the 20th Century's most spectacular trials. For the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., Bruno Richard Hauptmann...
...florid, stocky skipper from Southampton to New York. Over the North Atlantic raged a winter's storm that brought many a vessel distress, twice sent the barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take off only 700 of the Olympic's mail load of 13,108 bags. Captain Binks called it "the worst bloomin' sea I ever saw in 35 years at Quarantine." Unconnected with Captain Binks's retirement was the accident seven months...
...Thomas Benton is the most virile of U. S. painters of the U. S. Scene the honor of being a pioneer in the movement belongs to Charles Ephraim Burchfield, 41. a tailor's son from Ash tabula Harbor, Ohio. In his childhood Burchfield found nothing so fascinating as tumble-down houses, freight trains, railroad tracks. Today most up-to-date museums have Burchfields.. Not so spectacular a draughtsman as Benton, Burchfield manages to invest his paintings with a calm if somewhat dismal dignity and an exceptionally acute feeling for light and space. He lives in an eight-room frame...