Word: port
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first African port the beauty disembarks to spend a luxurious day in the tropics. The ship sails without her, on purpose. She fumes, rages, sobs?and a few weeks later is the contented concubine of a pink-lipped, glossy-black native prince...
Coach Mitchell sent W. K. Page '31 to the mound and the port-sided hurler performed creditably in his intercollegiate baseball debut. He allowed but six scattered hits, forcing the Hilltoppers to bingle harmlessly to the infield for easy outs...
...American Tragedy." This expedition won the ancient city a renewal of its already venerable fame. But it seems this was not sufficient, or at least the action was not rabid enough. This time "Candide", Voltaire's great philosophical novel has been seized by the Collector of the Port. The immortal work has been arraigned on the charge of "obscenity and obscurity." (Of course, it will surprise no one that M. Voltaire has been found obscure by such gentry as Collectors of the Port...
Charles Knox, founder of Knox Hats, came to the U. S. from Ireland in 1830, aged 12. The New York bound ship in which he crossed the Atlantic had been blown far out of its course and finally made port at Wilmington, Del., leaving Charles, 12, and his sister Margaret, 10, stranded 118 miles from their parents in Manhattan. "How are you going to get to New York?" asked the ship captain, who wanted to put Margaret in some Wilmington household and ship Charles as a cabin boy. "We'll walk," said Charles, and they did, in two weeks...
Alcohol is no longer the only commodity whose entry into the United States is forbidden by the customs office. A shipment of "Candide" has been banned by the collector of the port of Boston. Not because of the radical opinions expressed therein, but because the official found that certain portions of the volume were "dirty...