Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises a grimy coal chute. And all across the front stretches a pier-end from which urchins dive with a splash into what normally would be the orchestra pit, but which gives every illusion of being the fetid East River...
...night early last week in Manhattan half a hundred solid businessmen, bankers and journalists assembled on a Hudson River pier, piled aboard the night boat for Albany. Loud wails went up when it was discovered that the ship's store was closed, sending cigarets to a premium. There was steak for supper, however, and a visible abundance of Scotch & soda. Immediately ahead was the prospect of tumbling pouch-eyed off the boat at 7 a. m., to be whirled by bus to Schenectady. Ahead for the week was the prospect of a good look at the inside workings...
...nominees are: Nathaniel G. Benchley, James F. Chace, Marshall Field, Matthew B. Fox, Norman W. Johnson, and William S. Pier...
Elliot H. Goodwin '39, John R. Handy '39, Chandler Hovey, Jr. '39, Lawrence S. Johnson '39, Lawrence M. Keeler '36, Francis R. King '39, Neil G. Melone '37, Leonard K. Nash '39, Richard Norman '37, Gardiner Pier '36, William S. Pier '38, John H. Pierpont '39, Ben Pitman, Jr. '39, Robert D. Proctor '38, Tudor Richards '38, Harvey M. Ross...
Mandeville Zenge promptly supplied more headlines by paying off a cab at a Chicago pier and walking into the night. Behind he left a blood-stained coat and a suicide note: "I left home because I was so miserably unhappy over losing Louise ... I suppose she is better off married to that doctor ... I know what I am doing...