Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Credit...
...follow, stepped from the train. Flustered aides rushed to the welcoming committee, demanded that the mayor appear to greet Their Majesties. White River has no mayor, so the Committee quickly chose one, who escorted the royal visitors down to meet the locomotive crew. After the usual ceremonies at Port Arthur and Fort William, the train proceeded...
...Sunday the Empress nudged warily through ice and fog. In Quebec, where no Sunday newspapers are published, wild rumors spread, the wildest being that the Royal flotilla was dodging not ice but German submarines. By Sunday night, however, the liner had found clear weather, and steamed full speed for port. Scheduled for Monday, the elaborate welcoming ceremonies at Quebec had to be set back two days. Unwilling to slight the French population in Quebec and Montreal, Dominion officials cut the two days off Ottawa's scheduled four-day celebration. If all then went well, this would bring Their Majesties...
...Poles in Danzig there was some encouragement in the arrival at Gdynia, the all-Polish port only twelve miles northwest of Danzig, of Polish artillery. And just to keep the record straight the Polish Government reiterated its oft-repeated firm stand: "Any attempt to alter the present state of affairs in Danzig will have as an immediate effect immediate action by the Polish military forces, which at present are in a state of readiness...
...cargo, including ten U. S. warplanes not yet unloaded; fireboats poured tons of water into her blazing bowels, rigged webs of cables to keep her upright at the pier. Toward morning, with her red-hot sides sending out great clouds of steam, the Paris crankily listed to port, snapped the cables like twine, heeled over on her side and slowly settled in six fathoms, where at week's end she lay, gutted and disheveled, with her starboard screw out of water...