Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smiling hugely, gigantic, handsome King Christian boarded his yacht, set sail through the channels and islands of his kingdom for the port of Fredericia in Jutland last week. Bitterly cold for May, it was snowing hard, but that could not chill His Majesty's verve. He was about to inaugurate Denmark's most important post-War project, the longest bridge in continental Europe, which will revolutionize the country's transport system. Traveling more comfortably, Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen, the rest of Copenhagen's diplomatic corps and some 700 other officials came down for the ceremony...
President Bernard, most popular of the Gimbel clan, is friend to Gene Tunney and lesser celebrities, spends leisure hours entertaining richly on his Port Chester, N. Y. estate. Cousin Richard, no socialite, expresses himself by pride in his four children and by collecting the works of Edgar Allan Poe whose cottage on Brandywine Street he endowed and refurnished. Between Cousin Bernard and Cousin Richard bad feeling has long existed. After Richard Gimbel had put the Philadelphia store into the black, his salary was cut and he was removed from control-an episode he never allows Cousin Bernard to forget since...
Herbert M. Irwin '37, of Port Washington, Long Island, was re-elected President of the Memorial Society at the dinner held Friday evening in Adams House. Morrison C. Haviland '37, of Glens Falls, N. Y. was elected Vice President, Wheeler Sammons, Jr. '37, of Chicago, III., Secretary, and Joseph S. Iseman '37, of New York City, Treasurer...
...these mementos of the slave trade generally appreciated. Young modernists like Jacob Epstein, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, were profoundly affected by West African sculpture. Today an African mask or two is as necessary for the apartment of a young-man-about-Paris as lounging pajamas and a bottle of port...
...Also at Lakehurst are two blimps (one metal-clad). Last week Secretary Swanson ordered the Navy's lighter-than-air base at Sunnyvale, Calif.-home port of the late Macon-converted for heavier-than-air training, planned to concentrate all future lighter-than-air activities at Lakehurst. A third Navy blimp, still at Sunnyvale, will be transferred to Lakehurst...