Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skipper Roosevelt free to kick the tiller over and square away. Last week that moment came, and with vigorous word and action Franklin Roosevelt made perfectly clear what course he had laid out: through the narrow Strait of Recovery, boldly past the storm-ridden Primary Isles, to the snug harbor of Fall Elections...
Next day, almost in answer to Mr. Chamberlain's expectations, two more British vessels were sunk. The freighter Thorpeness, was hit by an aerial torpedo from a Rightist plane outside Valencia harbor, went down with 7,000 tons of grain. The freighter Sunion, formerly of Greek registry, was showered with incendiary and explosive bombs, burned for six hours and sank...
...William's frigate arrived in Boston Harbor from a two-year cruise. Frantically impatient to see his mother, William jumped into a small boat, pulled furiously for the land, leaped ashore, rode day and night, by carriage, coach and wagon, to Emmitsburg. He ran the last two miles, up & down hill, only to find, when he arrived at the convent, that his tuberculous mother had been six months dead...
...Oslofjord's deck, as she poked up The Narrows of New York Harbor last week and eased into quarantine, paced an authentic-looking Viking. He was Able Seaman Eugen Knutsen, burdened for a reception tableau with a shirt of mail and the weight of 938 years of Norse legend. At quarantine, Viking Knutsen received a visitor. She was Rosebud Yellow Robe, sprightly, college-bred great grandniece of Sitting Bull. Last week Rosebud mislaid her peace pipe but gave sheepish Leif a beaded tobacco pouch and the welcoming ceremony was over...
...year-old sea dog who retired from the Royal Navy after 30 years' service, enough action in foreign parts to become a qualified interpreter in Burmese, Hindustani, Swahili. His naval training prepared him specifically for Nessie, for during the War he devised and carried out all British harbor defense against hostile submarines. Last week his round, disappointed-looking face was brightening with hope, not for shareholders ("they may never get a return on their money"), but for the fair name of science: "It is time," said he, "that the scientific world was taking The Thing seriously, and I have...