Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...catch in his trap. The Guaranty cat having frightened all the mice away, Senor Leguia roared, ranted and raved, then wrote to .Mr. Hughes in Washington. He was particularly angry that the Guaranty Trust had warned a certain New Orleans company against undertaking the development of the port of Callao.* He had when "elected"† promised his people lots of money and lots of economic entertainment, but the wicked New York bank having acquired an option on loan flotations for Peru, had thwarted him at every turn in a most unfair manner. The U. S. Secretary of State...
Costanza, a bad sea-night's voyage from Constantinople, is a miserable port but about the only port Rumania has. It was haunted last week by Italian destroyers...
...alarmed and Scottish whisper: "Oh tell me, Shaw. Ha' ye eaten that, or are ye going to?"; and G. K. Chesterton, sitting at a table in Paddington Station "in a black sombrero and an enormous cloak, a cup of tea in one hand and a glass of port wine in the other, and looking, even in those utterly English surroundings, like a Dutch burgomaster just released from Rembrandt's studio after a long sitting...
...Mellen, Oxford's pink-faced American stroke, swallowed his last glass of daily training port-wine for the season. But the Cambridge port was better and the Cambridge men (classically known as "Cantabs") won the big race on the Thames...
Died. James Yereance, 80, President of the Lord's Day Alliance of the U. S., President Emeritus of the New York Port Society; at East Orange...