Word: piers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monterey, Calif., a 30-ton whale rolled, nuzzled, lolloped and spouted about the municipal pier; tried to swim between narrow piles; wedged, thrashed, spumed, gurgled, choked to death...
...great Cunarder Berengaria warped up to her pier at Manhattan last week, pressmen surrounded that jovial former pressman, that internationally popular bon viveur, the returning U. S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore. When Mr. Moore departed for Spain he was perhaps best known as widower of Lillian Russell. He had not been in Spain six months, however, when it was reported that he habitually addressed el Rey Alfonso as "Chief" and the Duke of Alba as "Jimmy...
...Improvisatore, brought him suddenly to fame. In his spare moments he had written a few fairy tales, idle things for which he had no regard. He wanted to be a dramatist. He traveled through Europe; after his triumphant visit to England, Charles Dickens saw him off from Ramsgate Pier. His plays were refused. People asked for more fairy stories. In 1847 and 1848 two new volumes were published. He wrote a romance, a book of travel; they failed to sell. "Fairy stories," readers begged. So, still disdaining them, he wrote more of these small tales that enchant children and philosophers...
...Caillaux, jaunty debt negotiator, landed at Havre, he twirled his cane in airy greeting to noted Poet-Playwright Maurice Rostand, who was waiting on the pier. Pressed for a statement, he declared: "We parted from the American delegates on the most cordial and sympathetic terms. . . . We shall resume our negotiations in good time." Implored to say something serious he took refuge in the ultimate cliché: "All I can say is that American women are charming...
...exception was the Chicago banker, Mr. F. H. Rawson of the Union Trust Co. He was there to meet MacMillan's cabin boy. He chartered a small steamer, took aboard other impatient ones and was waiting on the pier at Monhegan Island (30 mi. up the coast) when, trailing the Peary by a few hours, the Bowdoin, Macmillan at the wheel, skimmed around Lobster Cove Point and rattled out her anchor chains in Deadman's Cove. Not the last of the landing party that soon stepped ashore was a 15-year-old Cabin Boy Kenneth Rawson, tanned, broadened...