Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect disaster treatment. It began when passengers on the British steamship Fort Victoria, inching along in the soupy mist toward Bermuda, heard the bedlam of fog warnings, the fierce, hoarse blasts of a whistle which seemed altogether too near. Then the prow of the Clyde liner Algonquin, outbound for Galveston, loomed out of the murk and buried itself with a mountainous thrust in the port side of the Fort Victoria...
...request of High Commissioner Russell, he gave terse orders to Secretary of the Navy Adams. Quickly out of Hampton Roads sailed the U. S. S. Wright bearing a detachment of 500 Marines to supplement the force of 700 already in Haiti. From Guantanamo Bay steamed away the cruiser Galveston, bound for Jacmel where an arms smuggling plot was supposed to have been uncovered...
Experienced cleanser and quieter of Texas towns is burly, bronzed General Wolters. After the War he took his rangy troopers to Galveston Island, there quelled a festering longshoremen's strike. Later he was sent to oil-booming Mexia (pronounced Mayhea) where bootleggers and guntoters had usurped municipal government. "Mopupus Jake" and his troopers drove the usurpers to the hills, followed them in airplanes, corralled them...
Slimmer than most sylphs is Austria's fragile Fraulein Lisl Goldarbeiter, recently crowned "Miss Universe" by Galveston...
Magda Dimitrescu was also at the sta tion. She is not really a buxom girl, but beside ethereal "Miss Universe" her dimples looked their deepest, her curves and bulges fulsome. In the Galveston pulchri tude tourney as "Miss Rumania" she was not even runner up. Magda had come, hired by a Rumanian roulette syndicate, to welcome her successful rival and shepherd her to smart Sinaia Casino, where she was to be featured as "guest beauty" for a month...