Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared. It seemed that all that remained was to blow out the stern pontoons and tow the resurrected ship and her ghastly cargo back to a Christian harbor of refuge...
Died. Albert Merritt Billings, 32, Manhattan clubman, son of Financier-Sportsman Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings of New York and California, on his yacht Tropic in New York Harbor, attended by his wife Margaret ("Teen") Shaw Billings; of embolism (blood clot...
...Skane and Crown Prince of Sweden. Small, dark, sharp of feature: Louise, Crown Princess of Sweden, daughter of Prince Louis Battenberg, second cousin of the Prince of Wales, great-granddaughter of the great and plump Victoria. Under their feet: the motor-ship Gripsholm making its way into New York Harbor...
Forty trainloads of rural Fascists rumbled into Genoa the Superb last week, joined the excited Genoese in watching for an imposing procession of ships which steamed at length into their great hill-cradled harbor. As this squadron of naval and merchant ships approached, a lone figure wearing an admiral's hat with a towering white plume was finally discerned upon the flagship's bridge. For two hours thereafter thousands of sirens blew without ceasing...
...strange ship Baden-Baden, with a black ball at her masthead to show she is a sailing vessel but with no canvas to prove it, moved in and out of New York harbor last week with distinguished company aboard. Inventor Herr Anton Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best he could to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps...