Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Owen D. Young, returning to the U. S. from the successful Reparations conference in Paris, followed Hero's Highway from sea to land. He left the S. S. Aquitania at Quarantine, sped up the harbor on a special tug, landed at Manhattan's Battery, motored up Broadway past City Hall. But not one whistle blew for Hero Young. Not one ecstatic cheer rose for him. Not one inch of ticker tape fell upon him. Insistently refusing a public reception, Hero Young made his homecoming a strictly private affair...
Seventeen miles out to sea she sailed to inspect White Rock Island, under the lee of Santa Catalina Island.* Its two acres of level tableland formed of whitish rock, sheering out of the sea and covered only with stunted growth, looked good to her. Her desire to possess it became fixed...
...doctor and get permission to take the Archbishop away for the cruise. The doctor said he was a sick man, but he let me have him, and when the head of the Episcopal Church in England returned I think that he looked better for the sea voyage...
...dance floor is separated from the dining space by tiny canals. He will propose an open air cabaret which has permanent runways, like hollow walls, winding among the tables. The performers will dance and sing above. The waiters will scurry through the hollows below. The plans of a Geddes sea food restaurant show floor, walls and ceiling of glass tanks filled with swimming fish...
Nancy had one defense. Other disillusioned Fasseferns had flung themselves over the Rossorty cliffs into the boiling sea-Nancy herself remembered the white-haired master in scarlet hunting-coat madly spurring his ash-white horse over the cliff. So Nancy spurred herself and jumped, knowing as she did so that no groom's child could be so brave...