Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual outing of St. Mark's German Lutheran Church Sunday School ? felt the presence of this singular perfection. So did old Captain van Schaick who stood on his deck cocky and smiling, proud to be the skipper of one of the best excursion boats in New York Harbor. He took one little girl by the hand and let her tweak his moppish mustachios. The band was playing "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott." A woman, the last of the 1,400 passengers, waving her hand kerchief to someone on shore as if she had been going on a long...
...Septimius descends to the lobby. There he finds the other guests of the hotel in a state of considerable confusion. The entire kitchen staff has gone on strike. Count Veruda (of unknown antecedents) has asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence in the count. One of these ladies, Miss Harriet Perkins, confers with Septimius. Septimius suddenly discovers that he would much like to dine with Miss Perkins. He suggests that there is nothing wrong about a wholesale acceptance of the count...
When the S. S. George Washington hove into New York Harbor three weeks ago, an old lady sat bundled in an invalid's chair on board and an ambulance was waiting on the pier. Because she was indisposed and because she was Mrs. Lily Anheuser Busch, 85-year-old widow of the late Brewer Adolphus Busch of St. Louis, the old lady had "the courtesy of the port." Comptroller-of-the-Port Arthur F. Forran had furnished her with an "expedite" permit, so that she might escape the tedium of waiting while inspectors inspected 34 pieces of luggage belonging...
...also said that the Rumanian government had politically and officially hinted to the Government of France that it would be glad if Prince Carol were removed from French soil, pointing out that it was anomalous for the Republic to harbor a Prince who was plotting against a friendly state...
...Prize, to Judah Isaacs 1L., of Cincinnati, O. William Cheney Brown, Jr. scholarship to Lewis Hyman Weinstein 1L., of Portland, Me. John L. Cadwalader Memorial Scholarship to Edward Willard, of State College, Pa. Langdell Scholarships, to Frederick Beutel 1L., of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Moses Samuel Huberman 3L., of Belle Harbor, N. Y. Reuben B. Hutchcraft Memorial Scholarship to Vincent Booth 1L., of Bennington, Vt. Emmons Scholarships to Franklin Cox 1L., of Cameron, Texas, and to John Tory, of Ontario, Canada. Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship to Nathan Leonard Jacobs 3L., of Bayonne...