Word: newport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explorers who reached what is now Minnesota, Holand believes, were members of a long-range patrol dispatched from a semi-permanent settlement somewhere to the east. This settlement, he concludes, was on the present site of Newport, R.I. Its citadel was none other than the eight-columned, cylindrical ruin commonly known as the Old Stone Mill, still standing in Newport's Touro Park...
...Priceless Heirloom." Knutson's headquarters detachment, meanwhile, had been busy with that "priceless heirloom: the only building in America that brings us in contact with the Middle Ages." Holand reviews the several theories on the origin of the Newport landmark, including the widely accepted one that it was erected as a windmill by a Rhode Island colonial governor. Following Philip Ainsworth Means and others, and citing copious structural details, Holand concludes that the windmill theory is unsound-that the building was originally a "round, fortified stone church" of a type common in medieval Scandinavia. The builders: obviously, Knutson...
Next day he received a selected knot of Rhode Island politicians aboard the yacht, went ashore to visit the Naval War College at Newport. Then, after waiting out a Northeaster, the Williamsburg headed seaward again...
...world of J. P. Marquand (So Little Time; H. M. Pulham, Esq.) - as viewed in Perelman parody - "Out of these things, and many more, is woven the warp and wool of my childhood memory: the dappled sunlight on the great lawns of Chowderhead, our summer estate at Newport, the bitter-sweet fragrance of stranded eels at low tide, the alcoholic breath of a clubman wafted on the breeze from Bailey's Beach...
...latter-day obscurity to crush a canard. It was getting around that ex-Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...