Word: harbour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace through the troubled waters safely into the harbour of tranquillity and better times." Even more confident of peace was Edward Lyndoe in The People: "Anyone who listens to, and believes, this War-by-the-end-of-August rubbish is beyond hope." In the Sunday Chronicle Petulengro said: "News from Germany will again cause concern, but the planets ruling this country will smooth over the difficulties...
...Russell, Brookline George N. Hurd Marjorie Handy, New York Endicott Peabody II Roberts Robb, Brookline Robert T. Abbott Clare Wardaworth, Boston Berrien P. Anderson Mary Anderson, San Francisco Roger Angell Evelyn Baker, Weston Elisha Atkins Elsa Mohr, Philadelphia Charles A. Baker Alice Ann Moore, Newport, R. I. Hugh S. Harbour Maria Kidder, New York City Yale A. Harkan Elinore Glazier, Belmont Daniel D. Barker Celia Hubbard, Cambridge Thomas P. Barneleld Naney Kenyon, Pawtucket Robert Barnet Elizabeth Pratt, Wellesley Hills J. Malsolan Harter Helon Lewis, Beverly Philip C. Beals Dinny Chaffee, Belmont Robert C. Benchley Jr. Doris-Ann Graham, Englewood...
...want you to get me right from the start, and no misunderstandings. I'm no Captain Bligh. But I'm no harbour loafer either. I'm a man who's sailed the North Sea in 50 storms. . . . Who's looked death in the face many a time without hatting an eye. So you'll realise that I'm not sticking out my chest and bawling just because I've managed to get across from Grimsby to British Guiana in the Girl...
...Letter on Dec. 2, 1773 boldly addressed its readers with a call to arms against the British. "FRIENDS! BRETHREN! COUNTRYMEN!" shouted the News-Letter's, front page. "That worst of plagues, the detested TEA, shipped for this Port by the East-India Company, is now arrived in this Harbour; the Hour of Destruction or manly Opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny stares you in the Face...
Among the paintings, an "Impression of New York Harbour" is very interesting. In this he catches all the bustle of the busy port with its many types of boats, the dinginess of the smoky atmosphere through which the sun burns with a yellow glow, and the towering height of the skyscrapers. In a "Winter Scene" he portrays the dreariness of a tenement district when everything is covered with grey sooty snow. The most forceful picture of all is a war scene showing three men in the foreground, the first of whom is lieing on the ground with a huge bloody...