Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern runs due south from Kansas City, Mo., through Pittsburg, Kan., Joplin, Mo., Fort Smith, Ark., Shreveport, La., to Port Arthur, Tex.,* on the Gulf of Mexico. It carries grain, livestock, minerals, cotton...
...confused with Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, great grain, lumber and iron ore terminal, on Lake Superior, for Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific railways...
General Andrews decided that the books in question should be released since identical volumes had been for several years imported through the Port of New York without question. He added that the Treasury Department was giving the matter of allegedly obscene importations thorough study, and would, as promptly as possible, promulgate a set of regulations covering the subject. Further importations of the questioned editions of the Arabian Nights and the Decameron were ordered suspended until the announcement of the Treasury Department's findings...
...after 67 years "Pinky" had come back to Plymouth Church. It was to aid in celebrating the 80th anniversary of Henry Ward Beecher's first sermon at Plymouth Church that "Pinky," now Mrs. James Hunt, of Washington, D. C., returned. She was born a slave in 1851 in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md. When she was seven years old her mother and two brothers were sold to a Virginia plantation; she never saw them again. Soon after, she and her grandmother were sold to a slave trader in Baltimore. Later her grandmother purchased her own freedom, lacked money...
MICHAEL Arlen again, with his old characters in new names, dropped into a new book with the appropriate spring title "Young Men in Love"--that is all. It takes about a hundred pages of very, very polite conversation to get the plot tugged out of port and under way. Maxims are to be found at the beginning and end of each line, and one feels that Arlen is trying his hardest to impress us with his cleverness. I advise him to read some more Oscar Wilde and go back to Armenia...