Word: larkins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's Pacific Street starts at the waterfront, plods westward through the northern warehouse district, climbs past Chinatown and the Italian quarter to Larkin Street. There it changes its name to Pacific Avenue, straightens its dress and saunters out to the Presidio as a genteel residential lane. The first few blocks of Pacific Street today are a dreary line of warehouses, garages, shabby hotels, lunchrooms. Formerly they were the centre of San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast, for nearly 70 years the most vicious and depraved spot in the U. S. The amazing scenes and incredible characters...
...York, after John Wallace and George Larkin had had a few beers together, each one insisted on paying the check. John Wallace won the privilege by punching George Larkin dead...
Volume X of the Dictionary of American Biography was published, running from J to L, beginning with Soldier William Jasper, who recovered and remounted the shot-down flag in the face of a British bombardment at Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) in 1776. It ends with Thomas Oliver Larkin, last U. S. consul at Monterey, capital of Mexican California. Between are 674 giants and lesser mortals who made U. S. history. Chief giant: Thomas Jefferson, allotted 37 columns. Others: John Jay, John Paul Jones, Robert Marion LaFollette...
Adrian Hoffman Larkin...
...Here is not the sea of Conrad, romantic with austerities, but a sea which has beaten its devotees into a coarse ritual. "What kind of world was it into which he had flung himself? All men sailing at sea seemed to be obsessed with boys." Larkin, an officer, his own friend, warned him against the sea. "You must either give in or break away. In my 20-odd years at sea I have been "disarmed and stripped naked by her. ... It eats into the heart, it reduces the brain to a sort of pulp." At Alexandria, still only 13. Fearon...