Word: piers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Cinema & Radio Comic Lew Lehr, a German refugee named Meyer, never in the U. S. before, was met at a Manhattan pier by ship news reporters. Said he,right off the bat: "How happy I am a-a-awrk to be at last in your beautiful America sque-e-e-e, to live in peace and freedom bukabukabuk without fear of concentration camps ow-o-o-o-ow, to raise my children to know the full meaning of mental and physical liberty kre-e-e-sh, I can hardly wait to set foot on your happy shores...
From Chicago's Navy Pier reliefers scraped 1,170,000 gobs...
...beside her "just gasp and die"; there was a baby carried down the gangplank wrapped in a seaman's green-&-white-striped jersey; there was John Hayworth of Hamilton, Ont., father of ten-year-old Margaret Hayworth, whose head was crushed in the explosion, waiting at the pier for his wife to disembark. Mrs. Hayworth met him, and sobbed, "Dear God, John, she's gone...
Mild, professorial Brazilla Carrol Reece, Republican Representative from Tennessee, World War hero, disembarked in Los Angeles from the Matson liner Matsonia, leaving his wife and daughter on board. When he tried to rejoin them, a pier guard at the gang plank refused to let him pass. At that Hero Reece grappled with the guard, bit his ear good & proper...
When the Normandie safely slipped into her French Line pier in Manhattan this week, aboard (among other anxious travelers) were Sonja Henie, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Lee Shubert, Thomas J. Watson and a small gadget. Frivolous in its grim setting, it was nonetheless welcomed in Manhattan swankshops. It was a corset...