Word: porter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attending symposiums on organ playing. At a special service in his Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishop William Thomas Manning told the organists there is a "disastrous" lack of congregational singing in the U. S. The Guild announced the winners of two $100 prize contests: Chicago's Porter Heaps for an anthem, A Thanksgiving for All Created Things, and Scranton's Leon Verrees for a choral improvisation on O God, Our Help in Ages Past. Finally, Guild members united in indignantly rejecting a proposal that they affiliate with the American Federation of Labor...
After crossing the land of the Nham-biquaras, whose complete nudity failed to offend the hard-bitten colonel, Roosevelt, Rondon, the others and a troop of native porters and boatmen found the headwaters of the Rio da Dúvida and started down it in rough dugout canoes. The river, winding northward through precipitous canyons toward the Equator, almost beat them. There were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts...
...PORTER MOORE...
...Hopkins; E. B. Hubbard; H. Huston; R. C. Jones; T. O. Jones; T. J. Judge; J. P. Kennedy; S. King; J. Lehman; N. A. Lemke; J. S. Magrane; R. Martin; J. S. Mechem; A. Oakes; F. I. Olson; F. A. Peters; A. N. Pierce; R. L. Pope; E. H. Porter; R. Powell; R. D. Proctor; C. L. Randol; C. F. Roberts; L. P. Robie; R. R. Ross; B. Roth; E. Sachs; P. Shahan; S. R. Shaw; S. S. Stanton; J. B. Stevens; C. E. Stewart; E. Stix; R. C. Stuart; A. J. S. Tomasello; R. W. Tregaskis R. F. Tucker...
...Francisco four days away. . . . Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ("Safe-Reliable-Elegant") advertised that "its road bed is simply perfect and its track is laid with steel rails"; its Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars "lighted by Pintsch Gas." . . . Southern Pacific, in 1899, assured magazine readers that "a Personal Conductor and Porter go through with...