Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually, a "junkman." The "junkman" was a neutral or valueless ship detained by Capt. von Müller to be used as a floating hotel for the crews and passengers of destroyed vessels. When loaded to capacity, the "junkman" was released and sent steaming off to the nearest port. So bloated grew the Emden with provisions from her victims that Captain von Müller gave a band concert every afternoon and served coffee and bonbons to his crew...
...Emden sent a landing party ashore to destroy the wireless station of Port Refuge in the Keeling Islands. Up steamed the Australian cruiser Sydney, half again as large as the Emden. After a running fight which lasted ten hours the Emden was driven ashore, a blazing wreck...
...hugest, most lavishly gorgeous mansion in Dairen-near Port Arthur on the Yellow Sea-contains 35 pleasingly proportioned young women of assorted races, with their servants. Last week these young women were extremely anxious about their Chinaman and whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called...
Married. Natalie Price Guggenheim, 18, of Roslyn, L. I., daughter of Copper Tycoon Edmond A. Guggenheim; and Thomas M. Gorman, 27, of Port Washington, L. I., real estate broker, son of a station agent; secretly, three weeks ago, in Great Neck, L. I. Last week Mrs. Gorman sailed for France with her parents. Mr. Gorman stayed home...
...Recent example: New York-New Jersey covering the Port of New York's Development. † Three largest oil states: Texas, California, Oklahoma...