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Tickets for students desiring to go home by sea on the Eastern Steamship Lines may be secured at Brine's on Harvard Square, or at India Wharf, 12 Milk Street, Boston. The Lines offer accommodations on ten lines and good food and comfortable staterooms may be secured at reasonable rates...
When swift motors carried the Macdonalds to Boston, Ishbel cried: "Oh, we must go down to the wharf where the Indians threw tea into the harbor-Boston Tea Party, you know, Dads." Soon they stood upon what purports to be the very wharf. Later, proceeding to Philadelphia, Mr. Macdonald contracted bronchitis, was taken to Jefferson Hospital...
...unmailed letters, jottings, reviews, novels, plays and much plastic work of his hands, he left himself in people. Education in Iowa is finer because of him. Floyd Dell, his onetime gardener, is partly his work. The sea soughed in the piles and spouted up through the planks of the wharf on the first night of Bound East for Cardiff but the sea was never kinder to Eugene O'Neill than his first producer, "Jig" Cook, to whom the poets of Greece gave a fragment of Apollo's temple at Delphi for a tombstone, for whom Greek athletes have...
...boats, manned by grizzly "Kaintucks" lay at anchor. New Orleans was the richest city in the Americas and rivaled New York as a port. Bushy-whiskered rivermen were resentfully discussing that "outrageous sale of Louisiana to the United States." The boys disappeared in the bales piled high on the wharf. The suspicious guardsman peered about for a while, looked out over the muddy Mississippi and the waving grasses back in the impenetrable swamps, spat, returned to his post at the ale house, where he took up once more his duty with his cherie...
...great bow wave of the Renown feathered out and she steamed away, a slender male figure climbed atop a pile of chains and rubbish on the wharf. For some moments the handkerchief of Edward of Wales was waved by its owner...