Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan pier were Twin Jean Piccard, Mrs. Jean Piccard (also a twin), their sons Jean Auguste, Paul, Donald. Physicist Auguste and Chemist Jean embraced,† Uncle Auguste pulled a black beret from an overcoat pocket, offered it to Nephew Jean Auguste...
Since 1929 three other notable French ships have been damaged or destroyed by fire: the luxurious Paris, damaged while lying passengerless and crewless at her pier in Le Havre in August 1929; the ancient Asia which burned and sank while carrying Moslem pilgrims to Mecca (TIME, June 2, 1930); and the brand new Georges Philippar, burned and sunk at sea last May with a loss of 52 lives while returning from her maiden voyage to the Orient. Since French Indo-Chinese Communists had openly threatened the Georges Philippar, suspicion of incendiarism was reasonable, but the French Government, though it investigated...
Adios! Adioos! wailed many a black-eyed belle of dusty Corinto last week as she waved farewell to her khaki-clad "matrimony."† The U. S. Marines were at last leaving Nicaragua for home. The long planked pier at the Pacific port in which lay the transports Henderson and Antares creaked with the shuffle of 1790 brown shoes. Behind lay six years of bush warfare. Behind lay 20 officers and 115 men killed in action. Behind lay Revolutionist Augustino Sandino still at large. Behind lay President Juan Bautista Sacasa inaugurated day before with President Hoover's "warmest good wishes...
Jacob Neber '34 of Roxbury, Edward Neis, Jr. '33 of Detroit, Michigan, Dexter Newton '35 of Westboro, Herbert Y. Olds '34 of Lynn, Irving L. Pavlo of Malden, William G. Perry, Jr. '35 of Brookline, Arthur S. Pier, Jr. '35 of Concord New Hampshire, Albert Pratt '33 of Roxbury. John, B. Rackliffe '34 of Newton Jacob E. Rubinow '33 of South Manchester, Connecticut, Alan C. Russell '35 of Brooklyn, New York, George C. St. John, Jr. '33 of Wallingford, Connecticut, Richard S. Salant '35 of New York City, Walter S. Salani '33 of New York City, Robert D. Sand...
...pleased but nervous. For two hours before the ship sailed from Turkey he hid in his cabin. Reporters reported that he carried a pistol. When the Praga called at Athens pro-Trotsky Socialists who came to cheer, pro-Stalin Communists who came to boo, were both kept from the pier. Mrs Lubinsky went ashore in Athens, not tc inspect arrested Capitalist Samuel Insull but "to visit an antique shop"-presumably a disguised hideout for Trotsky Communists. When the ship reached Naples, Mr. Lubinsky dodged all but one persistent photographer (who snapped a view of the back of his hat), hurried...