Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward L. Doheny. Almost a year since the scandal began to brew, it is still sputtering?the Government trying to cancel the lease and make void the contract whereby the Doheny company tapped the California reserve and paid its royalties in tankage constructed for the Government at the Pearl Harbor naval base, Hawaii...
...King and the King's men, broke jail, was not recaptured for some time. Sent to Virginia, he worked in the forests and fields oi the new country in a capacity only nominally above that of the African slaves, his coworkers. Again he escaped to a ship in Norfolk Harbor, which proved unfortunately to be herself a slaver. The captain, happily, was his kinsman. Thus, David Scott rose to be a captain in the slave trade, rum and the force of habit hardening him to his task. Little by little he is brought in the end to see the light...
...Philadelphia Art Club Gold Medal, though it has never before been exhibited in Manhattan. His pictures hang in over 20 museums. In 1920 alone, he received 25 important medals. Among his best-known pictures are: Church at Old Lyme, Isles of Shoals, June Idylle, A Rainy Night, Gloucester Harbor...
Richard Brittingham, a Sophomore at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School, and a candidate for the crew manager-ship, was taken out to Belle Dock in the middle of the harbor early Tuesday afternoon by the crew launch to check the shells as they rounded the outer mark, and to see that no mishap occurred. After supper that evening some thoughtful person remembered that he had not been brought back. A search was started immediately, and at about 9 o'clock the faithful but gloomy candidate was found still sitting at his post...
Garrulous Mother Coe is elated with his improvement, which manifests itself in a regained appetite. Her joy is short-lived, however, for she hears from the hairdresser that "that dangerous woman" is stopping at Bar Harbor, the very next town. As Miss Coe puts it, "she revisits the spot as a criminal revisits the scene of her crimes". A tense War of the Roses follows, but Tony gets "a cold chill" by visiting the widow. The "fire of youth" is turned to "true love", Mother Mason attaches herself to the Professor, and "The Other Rose" at last has her "romance...