Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's fourth commissioning was spectacular. Naval officers in dress uniform brightened the crowd of 600 special guests on the pier. From the quarter-deck Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton read official orders putting the Constitution into active service. The colors and jack were hoisted, the first watch set. Command of the vessel was turned over to Commander Louis J. Gulliver...
...biggest ship that ever came to Canada. biggest plying between Empire ports. biggest built in Britain since the War. Canadians came by excursion trains to Quebec last week, roared through a new 1 ½ mile-long Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel under the city, came out at a spandy new pier and suddenly beheld the towering white, three-funnelled Empress of Britain...
...name of the creek is Cohausie and the wharf Greenwich Pier. HARRY M. ARMSTRONG...
...great ocean liner stood at her Manhattan pier one night last week waiting for a passenger who had already delayed the sailing time two hours. The passenger was an old man who had refused to complicate his busy life by hurrying. Leisurely he changed his clothes while the ship waited, leisurely chatted with a little girl of ten. Then through cheering crowds he pushed his way to a limousine, permitted himself to be whisked, while a guard of motorcycle policemen waved traffic aside, to the waiting S.S. Paris...
Just before the attack was to start a tiny fishing launch shot out from Funchal pier with a large white flag flapping from its flagstaff. As it neared the Carvalho Araujo the cabin opened. Out stepped Rt. Rev. Antonio Emmanuele Pereira Ribeiro, Bishop of Funchal, swaying unsteadily. A rope ladder was dropped. Hand over hand, up went His Reverence, his purple silk skirts flapping about his legs, to plead for the cessation of all hostilities, but Commandante Correia locked himself in his cabin...