Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McVickar; Stroke, Knowles; 7, Rantoul; 6, Hunt; 5, Ise lin; 4, Blaney; 3, Dort; 2, Fisher; Bow, Pier...
Considerable strength is also counted upon from the Freshman team of a year ago, which included E. F. Bowditch '35, N. M. Goodhue '35, A. S. Pier, Jr. '35, H. T. Pierpont, Jr. '35, W. E. Post, Jr. '35, E. S. Roys '35, J. P. Scheu '35, and C. F. Woodard...
Other New Yorkers who happened to be near the East River at 135th St. one morning last week told of seeing the 44-year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...
...passerby on the Boston Yacht Club pier at Marblehead, Mass, saw a man hanging head-down from the deck of a moored sailboat, his head & shoulders under water, his feet tangled in rigging, his body wedged between boat and pier. At a hospital, where he was given a fighting chance to live, the man was discovered to be Charles Brandon Booth. 40, a regional director of the Big Brother & Big Sister Federation, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America...
...time Groucho returned to Manhattan, his brother Gummo had shown signs of talent. Mrs. Marx hired a girl soprano, got up an act called "The Three Nightingales." They performed in Atlantic City in a beer garden on a pier. Underneath the pier were fishnets. The manager of the beer garden fed the Marxes only fish, because it was cheapest on his menu. Next season, Mrs. Marx thought that Harpo also was fitted for her act. She recalled him from the Seville Hotel, in Manhattan, where he was a bellhop. Unable to think of anything for Harpo...