Word: quay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Lord Reading, Governor-General of India, at present on leave in England, to the Reading† Chamber of Commerce: "On the day I was appointed Vicerory, I recalled the day when, after being two months moored at the quay in Calcutta awaiting a cargo of jute, I stood under the fo'c'sle head taking my small part in heaving away on the capstan...
...American people will know that they are dealing with a system; that even though Hanna, Quay and Penrose are dead, their spirits go marching on in the personages of the Three Musketeers of present-day Republicanism? Butler, Stearns and Slemp. These bosses are 'doing business in the same old way, according...
...standing on deck when I saw a carriage driving furiously up to the quay, surrounded by a guard of shabby arquebussiers--a lady was dragged out of the carriage and shoved up the plank on to the ship. An old man jerked her toward me and put a letter in my hand. 'An order from the King!' said he, 'a prisoner' of State to be taken to Louisiana and delivered to the Governor...
...Frank B. Kellogg, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and Mrs. Kellogg, who were met by Post Wheeler, U. S. Charge d'Affaires in London, and several U. S. officials. When Ambassador Kellogg was landed and had climbed the cold, clammy stone steps onto the quay, he found only six British and six American journalists to greet...
...circumstances, was a signal for a prodigious outburst of enthusiasm from the Turks. When he saluted the Turkish flag and gripped the hand of Salah-Ed-Din Adil Pasha, Military Governor of Constantinople, the crowd broke through the cordon of police and followed the departing Allies to the quay. There was a farewell luncheon party on board the transport Arabic; then the Allies were gone. Later, Turkish troops marched triumphantly into the late capital through streets gay with Turkish flags and strewn with flowers. Religious rites were also solemnized. Turkey belongs to Turkey...