Word: piere
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...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...
...dismissed from the force. He introduced a letter from Chief City Magistrate Corrigan to prove that he was "dissatisfied with conditions existing in the courts," now under investigation, one year ago. Where facts failed, the Mayor used sophistry. How could he find evidence of bribery in the allotment of pier leases when Republican U. S. District Attorney Tuttle could not? To the City Affairs Committee's demand that three of his appointees be removed from the Department of Hospitals, the patriotic Mayor replied: "These three men all saw service in France with the A. E. F. while the complainant...
...jumped into the barge. Propellers churned the water white. The officers on the pier set up a feeble cheer, "Viva...