Word: piers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Isidro Ayora, who, besides being his country's foremost surgeon, is a sort of Ecuadorian Hamilton under whom Ecuadorian finances have been reborn, was at the pier to offer Mr. Hoover a hearty abrazo (hug and back-pat), which Mr. Hoover accepted and deftly returned. The nation's leading newspaper announced that this was "one of the greatest events in the history of Ecuador, a never-to-be-forgotten day." At the reception, the Ayora speech mentioned Washington, Lincoln, Wilson. The Hoover speech mentioned the surplus (first on record) in Ecuador's treasury...
Down a Manhattan pier to meet the Aquitania as she docked last week, moved a ponderous prodigy of a man. Customs inspectors looked his way and touched their caps from a distance. There could be no mistaking who it was-William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the 300-Ib. onetime Princeton footballer who, under President Wilson, used to be Manhattan's collector of internal revenue. Obviously, Mr. Edwards had come down to meet friends and, by adumbration of his old authority, facilitate their passage through the customs shed...
...Saturday afternoon, Nov. 10, the Vestris sailed from her pier at Hoboken, with fair weather and calm sea. Yet one passenger, Carlos Quiros, chancellor of the Argentine consulate in New York, bitter in his criticism of the way the Vestris was handled, says: "She had a list when tied up at the pier before sailing. In fact, we could not sleep on Saturday...
...slender, sparkling woman came down the gangplank of the S. S. Paris a fortnight ago, said a few fast greetings in French and moved down the pier to the luggage space allotted those whose names began with A. There were 22 trunks to be passed on, trunks filled with costumes which were white and ruffled, sleek and black, cloudy and lacey: trunks for gay mantillas, for red and green and golden slippers. Even customs officers looked their awe. Such colors, such stuffs were rare. Such charm was rare too, but at the moment no commensurate assurance swelled the breast...
...episode. In his retraction, issued just before sailing to Europe, Editor White said : "I'm throwing no mud at. Governor Smith." A picture at once suggested itself and was drawn ? a little man on the stern of a steamer sloshing a mudball at a big man on a pier...