Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Pauline Heifetz, sister of famed violinist Jascha Heifetz; to Samuel Chotzinoff, music critic of the New York World, former accompanist for Efram Zimbalist and Jascha Heifetz; at Port Chester, N. Y., secretly, a fortnight...
...Illinois Children's Home clapped their hands in delight. Once the great gathering sucked in its breath and stood up in its seats with the shivering "Ah!" that fevers a plaza de toros when the matador is tossed. This was when Vadabelle, ridden by Dick Messcrop of Port Chester, N. Y., in taking the five-foot wall at the edge of the tanbark instead of the last jump on the course, went sprawling into a group of spectators, knocking them down like dolls. But no one was hurt; Vadabelle went back to her stall. Otto W. Lehmann...
...While he was in jail she entered into holy wedlock with a rumshop keeper from Jamaica and sailed away with her husband. Released at last Dyle joined the Zouaves and shortly he too was transferred to Jamaica. There he cut a sumptuous figure. He was the best man in Port Royal and in much demand at weddings. He was a most successful gambler, for he had a way with the dice and cards as well as with women. And if he was no end of trouble to his captain, he was none the less cock of the walk...
...Sitting at Arica, port of the Chilean-governed province of Tacna-Arica, to supervise a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge, as arbitrator, to decide the future sovereignty of the provinces of Tacna and Arica, wrested by Chile from Peru when those nations were embroiled in the early '80's (TIME, Aug. 3, et ante...
...special feature of the "M" boats, of which the M-1 was the first, consists in the fact that they are the only submarines which are equipped with a regular 12-inch dreadnaught gun. Thus a fleet of such "monitors" might slip into an enemy port unobserved, possibly during the absence of the enemy fleet, and deliver a bombardment of dreadnaught calibre at close range before effective measures could be taken against them...