Word: piers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yokohama. She trailed the U. S. fleet from San Pedro to San Francisco. She put out from San Francisco on the day the fleet sailed, was several times sighted on the flank of the battleship division commanded by Admiral Pratt, entered Honolulu as the battle began, docked at Pier 7 near Admiral Coontz's umpire flagship. On several occasions, her officers paid their respects to the U. S. commanders. She went cheerfully on to the sunrise...
...been aboard the Lusitania which, when hit by a German torpedo, sank, throwing her unconscious into the water and drowning her two traveling companions. Shortly after her marriage, she went with her husband to Iceland and, en route, a boiler blew up and later the vessel burned at her pier. In 1921, she went with Mr. Riddle to Argentina. Six months later, she was obliged to return to New York on architectural matters and, during the voyage, the vessel's rudder jammed and the ship "nearly turned turtle." Her successive experiences impaired her health and her doctor forbids...
Married. Ogden L. Mills, 40, U. S. Congressman and Manhattan clubman, to Mrs. Dorothy Randolph Fell; at Narragansett Pier, R. I. His divorced wife, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, is now the wife of Sir Paul Dukes, of London. Mrs. Fell last year divorced John R. Fell, of Philadelphia, charging drunkenness. Mr. Mills is the grandson of Darius Ogden Mills, '49er...
...other hand, certain hidebound Republican organs give to many of their dispatches a heavy Coolidge flavor and lose no chance to place the Davis candidacy in a bad light." This is hyperbole. These "hidebound Republican organs" refer chiefly to Frank Munsey's Sun, Ogden Reid's Pier Herald-Tribune, and Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Post. In the degree of news partisanship shown there is probably little difference between these three papers and the "rigidly nonpartisan" World. Incidentally, the most virulently partisan paper in the city, although it is new and therefore small, is the Bulletin...
...large steamship slid alongside a Manhattan pier and disgorged four little ships-Thistle, Zenith, Echo, Betty. They were the British boats that will set their sails against U. S. craft beginning Sept. 6, for the International 6-Metre Yacht Trophy. The races will be held at Oyster Bay, L. I. under the auspices of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club...