Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they could and did let themselves be strewn with island blossoms and lei (wreaths). They were made to feel tremendously important when the Maui left Honolulu by a dozen planes hawking, towering, swooping over the harbor in their honor. A dark shaft struck through their glory when an Army monoplane maneuvered by Lieut. Charles Linton Williams plummeted down and was wrapped, plane and man, in sea death...
...officers were court-martialed on charges of negligence when, on April 30, the Colorado went aground on Diamond Reef in New York Harbor (TIME, May 9, June 13, 20). Although the ship was piloted by a civilian Navy Yard pilot, one Clark Cottrell, Captain Karns and Lieutenant Commander Friedell were on the bridge when the vessel struck, and were therefore considered to be responsible for the accident...
...first time, When she has vainly waited a year for a second meeting, she marries Archie Roxby, bears him a son, becomes his widow. At home again, Mary Hansyke goes into her uncle's shipyards, watches the tall clippers she has built swing through the harbor of Danesacre to the wide sea; her worship of lovely ships is a more compelling idolatry than that which she offers her second husband, Hugh Hervey. She loves him deeply, but, since love and ship-building touch in her the same depths, ship-building more perfectly satisfies her sense of command. Just after...
...from the ships, Mary Hansyke's eager and concentrated mind could not for long be satisfied. They plan to go away together, but quietly, alone, he goes first. "Forever young, forever brave, forever proud, Mary Hansyke walked across the old shipyard, while the John Garton moved down the harbor, her keel parting a shoreless sea, her prow lifted to the air of eternity. A lovely ship...
Because his Spirit of St. Louis had a sticky valve, Colonel Lindbergh hopped from Washington to Long Island in an Army pursuit plane, transferred (at Mitchel Field) to an amphibian plane, alighted on New York Harbor. Long before the hero touched foot on the island of Manhattan, the air was full of shrieks, confetti and shredded ticker tape. Twelve thousand police carried no clubs; but linked arms, used hands, charged on horseback to keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor...