Word: piere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor ship" (that is, with Diesel instead of steam propulsion), the Lafayette is the largest liner of this advanced type in the French merchant marine. As she was warped into her Manhattan pier not only New York but Virginia officially welcomed the mission Dampierre. In their famed colonial uniforms, Virginia's historic Monticello guard stood at stiffest attention. Just so their ancestors stood to be reviewed by General de La Fayette...
...pawed the trunkfuls, cratefuls of lavish riches brought in by Mr. & Mrs. Dodge last month on the S. S. Ile de France are still marveling. A panorama of silks, satins, furs was there, and a rajah-worthy collection of diamond jewelry. Scant room remained that day on the pier for the effects of any other traveler whose last initial was D. Yet Mrs. Dodge had declared only $17,000 worth of imports. "Did she think we were that dumb?" asked inspectors who had pounced on her ostentatious quantities of luggage, appraised its contents of contraband at about...
...matter of course the Somalis prepared for knife play. Retiring down the pier, pretending to disperse, they telephoned to blackamoors across the Tyne who presently swarmed over in ferryboats. Only English newspapermen covered what next happened, and they conceived it their duty to be brief and vague. All despatches from the scene were studiously played down by British editors. Example: "Several Englishmen and two Somalis were gravely injured by knives and razors. . . . The whole police force of North Shields became engaged and was forced to charge time and again before quiet was restored. Even then the police were able with...
Near Portsmouth, N. H., Charles Waggoner, crippled and confined to a wheelchair for 15 years, rolled himself from his farm across twelve miles of rutted country roads toward the ocean, rolled to a pier, rolled to the railing, plunged himself into the water, drowned...
April 25-May 3?Chicago national motor boat show; at Navy Pier, Chicago...