Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been found by the Coast Guard cutter Marion. She was 80 mi. east of Nantucket, about 112 mi. further from Bermuda than at the start of the race. She was proceeding toward the Bronxonia Yacht Club at 3 m. p. h. The Marion escorted the Curlew into port at Newport...
Married. Adelaide Sims, daughter of retired Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims; and Robert Francis Fiske of Harvard University's personnel department; in Newport...
...Just tell them I'm happy, and thank everybody for being so kind," called stal wart Mrs. Gann. "Platform? I haven't a thing to say about the platform. . . . I think the platform is all right. . . . I'm going to speak at Newport...
Married. Florence T. Baker, daughter of George Fisher Baker Jr., granddaughter of the late, great financier; and Thomas Suffern Tailer, Manhattan & Newport socialite, Princeton sophomore, metropolitan amateur golf champion (last fortnight) ; in Locust Valley...
...this historical monograph Dr. Rand presents several discoveries in connection with Berkeley's three years in America. He describes efforts made to include Berkeley to found his college in Newport, then the foremost cultural center in America, rather than in Bermuda, and shows why Berkeley, for good reasons, was unwilling to do this. It is also established that Berkeley preached in King's Chapel. Dr. Rand gives the first account, partly conjectural, of Berkeley's visit to Harvard, where President Wadsworth received him September 17, 1731, presumably in Wadsworth House...