Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good ship San Giorgio, pennants a flutter, hove to in the magnificently festooned harbor of Buenos-Aires. Guns boomed a welcoming salute. On the dock were the President of Argentina, his suite, hosts of Cabinet Ministers, statesmen and politicians, le Corps Diplomatique, numberless other dignitaries, all supported by a crowd estimated in hundreds of thousands. Italy's Crown Prince had come to pay an official visit to Argentina...
John William Davis: "Accompanied by Frank L. Polk and my secretary, I strode out onto the Tarrantine Country Club golf links at Dark Harbor, Me. We drove off. It was growing dusk when we reached the ninth hole, forcing us to stop, but I had played the best game of my life-'out' in 44. I was reported as saying that, could we have played the last nine, I would have finished with...
...near Carrara, Italy, not far from where his body was washed ashore in July, 1822, a colossal monument will be erected to the poet Shelley. It is to be a figure of Prometheus, exceeding 180 feet in height, greater in size than the statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, represented as in Shel- ley's poem* unbound, bearing fire to man. The idea is further expanded by making the shaft, against which the figure stands, into a lighthouse which will throw its signal light far over the Tyrrhenian sea, whose treacherous waters were the poet's grave...
...fleet of fishing smacks from the little Dutch town of Volendam went out to meet an ocean liner and to escort it into the harbor of Amsterdam On board the liner was His Eminence Cardinal Willem Van Rossum, once a humble priest among the fishermen...
Died. Mrs. Charles W. Eliot (Grace Mellen Hopkinson), 77, second wife of the President Emeritus; at Northeast Harbor, Me., after some years illness caused by heart disease...