Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four Pursuivants-Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, Port Cully, and Rouge Dragon -are chiefly useful in seeking and receiving the permission of the Lord Mayor for the Earl Marshal and Kings of Arms to enter the "City of London**." The final proclamation is made by Norroy King of Arms, at present Arthur William Steuart Cochrane...
When his ship nosed into Rio's mountain-shadowed harbor last week the port was reverberant with welcoming din. Airplanes cavorted about. A great passenger plane, with 14 people, half of them national notables, almost struck another machine; the pilot veered, weakened a wing, went into a tail spin; the plane splashed into the water; all 14 were drowned. Rio's din ceased. Flyer Santos-Dumont walked from his ship, head down, depressed...
...friends, a smart-looking Mr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Herter of Manhattan, debarked with six trunks and seven pieces of hand luggage and the courtesy of the Port. Mr. Edwards took them in genial tow, commandeered the attention of two inspectors and guided" the party to the section lettered "H." A cheery conversation began as the trunks were unlocked and an inspectorial eye ran over the-Herters' joint declaration...
Last week the "jiggle" was a boiling, foaming wake wave, and from the Enterprise's short, rakishly tilted funnels spewed enough smoke and steam at roaring forced draft to perceptibly darken the "blue." Behind lay British East Africa and the small, busy port of Dar-Es-Saalam, where Edward of Wales had taken ship. Ahead, beyond the Red Sea, beyond the Mediterranean, beyond Europe and the Channel lay the beloved Sovereign of an Empire. Radio flashes told that pleurisy had been followed by pneumonia, complicated by Bright's disease...
While whistles, bells and yells made farewell din in the narrow harbor of Dunedin, New Zealand, last week, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's South Pole Expedition started from that port for a year and a half in Antarctica. He, his scientists and able seamen were aboard the bark City of New York. There was no breeze flirting down Dunedin's forested mountains to tap-tap her sails; so her mateship the steamer Eleanor Boiling hauled her down the narrow Otago Inlet like a puffing rustic leading his wench through a lane...