Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fish. A drizzly rain fell over New York harbor at dusk one day last month. A trim little 30-foot cabin sportabout nosed out of the Kill van Kull, turned north across the Upper Bay. Aboard were Manhattan Broker Stuyvesant Fish, owner; Mrs. Fish; their two sons, and Captain A. Phillip Larsen. Mr. Fish was bringing his new yacht, the Restless, up from its builders, American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del. From the Brooklyn shore a U. S. patrol boat slid out in pursuit of the Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired...
...mournful morning. The chill air held a thin mist as the French cruiser Tourville, escorted by the U. S. cruisers Marblehead and Cincinnati, passed Ambrose Lightship, moved somberly through Quarantine and up New York Harbor. On her quarterdeck, under the after gun turret, rested a flag-draped coffin of rosewood. Within the coffin lay the body of Myron Timothy Herrick, late U. S. Ambassador to France, going home...
...grey harbor waters, usually strident with ship whistles, were muffled to a low-breathing hush, which was broken heavily by a 21-gun salute from Governor's Island. At the French Line pier in Manhattan, La Tourville docked gingerly, took aboard great men in black clothes to stand, lost in their own thoughts, about the casket. On a mulberry-colored cushion rested the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh stood there, his shoulders drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin...
When, in 1815, Napoleon I was a prisoner on the British warship Bellerophon, thousands of sturdy Britons flocked to Plymouth Harbor in the hope that the Ogre might show himself on deck. When, last week, two Napoleons of U. S. finance reached London on a diplomatic, but controversial errand, they were regarded with less hostility but with almost as much curiosity. "American Millionaires in Kingsway," headlined the London Standard, "Sir Hugo Meets the United States Giants," cried the London Evening News. Much has Britain lately worried concerning the U. S. Money; now Yankee Doodle had certainly come to town...
...coast of Australia some seven years ago, she swimming three miles to a light-ship with a family of kittens clinging with their claws to her firm flesh. What started last week's uproar was the discovery of the Minnie A. Caine, lying placidly at anchor in Oakland Harbor, Calif. She has been there for the past two years. Fact-finders were able to show that Joan Lowell and her father had been aboard the Minnie A. Caine about 15 months instead of 16 years...