Word: portsmouth
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...band played loud at a Vanderbilt lawn party in Portsmouth, R. I., and the horses of the approaching Vanderbilt carriage shied, bowled over two ladies near the gate. Out of the coach leaped Newport's Mayor Mortimer A. Sullivan and Vice President Charles Curtis, stood the ladies on their feet again...
...rules of competition for the America's Cup she must make on her own bottom. Her delicate racing sails had been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran skipper. All the King's warships in Portsmouth, the French warship Bison, the King's yacht Victoria & Albert, and the fleet of yachts gathered for summer sail- ing in Ryde, Cowes, Calshot were signaling good luck, but the west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul...
...Near Portsmouth, N. H., Charles Waggoner, crippled and confined to a wheelchair for 15 years, rolled himself from his farm across twelve miles of rutted country roads toward the ocean, rolled to a pier, rolled to the railing, plunged himself into the water, drowned...
...with him to build a church. An overpowering man with a stentorian voice, he wore a big, warm beard instead of a shirt. He had been Methodist Bishop of Africa. When he arrived in San Francisco he put his Bible on an overturned whiskey barrel in the middle of Portsmouth Square, bellowed and sang until the saloons emptied to hear him. For diversion he swam regularly across San Francisco Bay, a procedure still regarded as something of an athletic feat. He founded the College of the Pacific (Methodist Episcopal college in Stockton, enrollment about 970), wrote more than 20 books...
...names of the men who received degrees with distinction follow: Robert Gorham Davis of Cambridge, and Hyman Alpers of Salem, A.B. cum laude; Warren Wilcox Anthony of Portsmouth, R. I., and Shephard Sterling Senter of Windham, N. H., S.B. cum laude. Five more A.B. degrees were given this year than last, but 14 less than...