Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bennett Field. There, swaddled in a heavy flying suit and parachute, he boarded a Coast Guard amphibian which shortly deposited him beside the harbor tug Manhattan in the lower bay off Quarantine. Taken to the Carinthia by the tug, he bounded blithely up the gangway, scowled blackly when he ran square into a bevy of newshawks. Backing away, his fists clenched, he snorted to photographers : "No pictures ! I'm warning...
...Portuguese descent, had done quite well for himself as a hardware dealer on the island of St. Thomas. He sent little Camille to Paris to school, brought him back to the Islands to make an ironmonger of him. Camille Pissarro stuck it out until 1852, when he ran away to Venezuela to become an artist. Three years later he was in Paris and had discovered the painter whom above all others he wished to imitate. Kindly, aging Jean Baptiste Corot took the young Virgin Islander as a pupil...
...been the active supervisor on the tunnel job. His administration extended through the completion of the Hell Gate project, the building of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, the War years, and the beginning of the 1920's. These were prosperous years for the Pennsylvania, which ran its gross income from...
Evalyn's father, Thomas F. Walsh (not to be confused with Montana's late Senator) was an Irish immigrant who drifted to Colorado, left his carpenter's trade for prospecting. He ran a store in Deadwood, owned Leadville's most respectable hotel during the boom there. Evalyn's mother, known to Leadville as "a rather refined lady" because she changed the name of one of her husband's strikes from Sowbelly Gulch to St. Keven's, had gone West to be a schoolteacher. Evalyn was born in 1886, can still remember...
When Christiane and Hannes met again they were both married, and neither marriage had turned out well. It was just a matter of time before island gossips had something more than rumor to wag their tongues over: Hannes and Christiane ran off together. But that was no life for Hannes who was a bachelor farmer by blood, and he left Christiane to rescue his rundown farm. Too late he found that she meant more to him than anything. After their child was born dead Christiane returned to her husband, Hannes to his haunted farm...