Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Negro friends of Miss Baker in Harlem, New York City, positively asserted that she was the wife of a Pullman porter named George Baker. By this time the confusion and sensation were international. The Associated Press put its Rome correspondents to work tracing Count Pepito di Albertini. For three days they ransacked Italian genealogical and police records-found no such name-announced the fact...
...evolution, and always she manages to insinuate the worst. Only at intervals does she make some mater-of-fact statement which catches the reader's fancy and conveys more truth then all of her long dissertations. For example, she says: "At the slave bazaar I also purchased a negro porter and a Greek philosopher. I paid five thousand sesterces for both of them --a most exorbitant price...
...Porter. New York Central officials deny that there is any distinction between Century sections. There is, they say, no "first," no "last," save as the trains are spaced a block* or two apart on the runs. Nevertheless, should Calvin Coolidge or George V or Charles Augustus Lindbergh signify a desire to travel as a private citizen (i. e. not in a private car) between Chicago and Manhattan, he would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended...
Smith ran in the mile in the Yale meet, and was prevented from showing his wares in the 880-yards. Porter, placing third in the half-mile, was chosen as second man in that event to Hogan of Yale, the winner. It was decided to give Smith a chance, and in a special trial race last Friday, the Sophomore runner outfooted J. S. Malich '27, J. C. Peet '28 and Porter to the tape in a 2.01 half-mile...
With the substitution of G. W. Smith '29 for R. P. Porter '29 in the half-mile run, the personnel of the Harvard-Yale track team which will meet the Oxford-Cambridge forces at Stamford Bridge, England, on July 9, is practically complete. One place in the 220-yards hurdles is still disputed between Sherman and Wood of Yale, but the athletes for the other positions have been definitely chosen...