Word: seaports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biography of Gorrie has ever been written. His story was told last week in Scientific Monthly by Professor George Byron Roth of George Washington University. Born in Charleston, S. C. in 1803, John Gorrie studied medicine in the North - exactly where, no one knows. He began practice in the seaport of Apalachicola, Fla., took such an interest in municipal affairs that he became postmaster, city treasurer, city councillor, mayor. Fever descended on Apalachicola every summer and Dr. Gorrie found it impossible to treat his patients in the hot weather. The earnest young physician thought the best thing was to cool...
...studying for the priesthood. A big. middle-aged Irish woman, proud, foolish, intense, domineering, Mrs. Fury had known poverty all her life, hut had never lost her spirit, controlled her magnificent temper, or grown resigned to the ways and morals of the squalid district of the English seaport where she lived. She had met her husband. Dennis, when she jumped from an excursion steamer to save a child, had been saved in turn by him. Strict and unforgiving, she had closed the door on her son Desmond when he took a lovely but mysterious wife who was thought to have...
Dobbs was a U. S. bum whose wits and luck kept him just a step from the gutter in a Mexican seaport town. The oil boom was dwindling, his luck was beginning to go too, when he met two compatriots in like case, and the three of them agreed to pool their resources, go prospecting for gold. Curtin, like Dobbs, was a greenhorn at the business, but luckily Howard was an oldtime prospector. He led them up through the mountains to a godforsaken spot, set them to work panning for gold dust. After many a long, backbreaking month they each...
...slow, chuffing train from Athens U. S. Minister Lincoln MacVeagh and a quorum of the Greek Cabinet traveled up last week to the northern seaport of Salonika. Base of Allied operations during the War, Salonika was shelled again during the abortive Venizelist revolt last March. This time, however, diplomats and statesmen were going north on a more peaceful mission-to honor one of the most permanent institutions in the Balkans, bearded little old John Henry House of the American Farm School in Salonika...
...nearer the sea, lay a brown-stone edifice handsome in its simplicity, dedicated to the Christian Church. Beside this building a most peculiar structure leaned. Round in shape, and encircled with columns, it was the leaning belfry that had brought more fame to Pisa than its prowess as a seaport or the renown of its University. About the base of this leaning tower a gathering of men had formed, who, straining their eyes, were gazing toward the topmost row of columns. Silence fell upon the waiting circle. Far above a bearded man in flowing dress held up his hand, stilled...