Word: seaport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Director, and four Health Inspectors stoutly praised the Slasher. All were arrested, will be tried for "criminal incompetence," probed to see if they have taken bribes from shrewd Cobbler Kolesnikov. Stars & Stripes. Raucous foghorns and tooting whistles dinned a welcome last week across the harbor of Novorossiisk, bustling Black Seaport. Slowly in steamed the little S. S. Exford, flying stars, stripes. Excited Soviet stevedores cheered. Now there would be more work, plenty of tchervontzi (banknotes, 1 tchz. = $5.13) to earn. The little Exford, owned by Manhattan's pioneering American Export Line, hove into Novorossiisk as the first ship...
...story. "Considering his position as Prime Minister of Great Britain," thundered Father Dowd of Ottawa's St. Theresa's Church, "the words were an insult to about half the people of Canada, who adhere to the Roman Catholic Church." Montreal. Largest of Dominion cities, fifth most important seaport in the world, terminal headquarters of both the Dominion's great railway systems (Canadian National, Canadian Pacific), and busy mistress of nearly 3,000 factories, great Montreal* staged a mighty welcome...
...Peruvian municipal government was installed in Tacna City, at exactly 4 p. m. The local Peruvian Superior Court was proclaimed to be functioning at 5 p. m. Trucks and vans piled high with Chilean furniture rumbled out all afternoon from Peruvian Tacna City, sped to the still Chilean seaport of Arica City, 39 miles distant and 1,800 feet below...
Mariners who sail into Liverpool in future years will behold vast spires shining through the smoke of the seaport. Last week Most Rev. Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool, announced that, after years of subscription by Catholics rich and poor, nearly $1,000,000 had been raised, enough to begin work on the long-antici-pated Liverpool Cathedral. What the Archbishop added was exciting to religious folk. Said he: "Hitherto all cathedrals have been dedicated to saints. I hope this one will be dedicated to Christ Himself with a great figure surmounted on the cathedral visible for many a mile...
...pious and the artistic. "We do not want something Gothic," he declared. "The time has gone by when the Church should be content with a weak imitation of medieval architecture. Our own age is worthy of interpretation right now and there could be no finer place than a great seaport like Liverpool. . . . On the other hand, we want nothing 'Epsteinish...