Word: weehawken
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...Henry Ameroy Hotvedt (pronounced Hotwet) of Weehawken, N. J., said, "People snicker at the mention of my name," when he last week petitioned a law court to change his name to Hartwell...
Down through the Mohawk and Hudson valleys the train swept and paused. At Utica, Herkimer, Ravenna, Kingston, Newburgh, West Point there were crowds, cheers, songs, handshakes, little girls, gladioli, more movies by Mrs. Coolidge. At Weehawken, Manhattan Transfer, Pennsylvania Junction only a few trainmen gazed on the special and its precious cargo. At midnight the President and Mrs. Coolidge arrived at a spick and span White House, tired, happy...
...found her wandering through the streets of Weehawken, N. J., weeping with the fierce, cloudly bitterness of one deranged by shock. He spoke gently to her. She did not know where she was going. She did not know where she had come from. That was why she was crying. Ho, but the officer knew what this meant! It was some disease they had when they talked like that; he had read about it in the papers many's the time; magnesia was the name of it, or rhodesia, or one of them. He took her to the North Hudson hospital...
...tore along the ties into Syracuse, N. Y., and the voice said: "We are determined that Wall Street shall not buy this election." Then it headed for Weehawken, N. J., Aiken, Md., Baltimore, Schenectady, Boston, Pittsburgh...
...strung on historical data, it deserves mention. In its pages are fascinating glimpses of early American history, revitalized. Days of the sprawling growth of the bristly, sturdy little Nation, days of triumph for Washington, of jealousy between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, ended so tragically on the bluffs at Weehawken, days of wickedness and glamour in the dazzling French Court, days of snobbery and naivete in awkward little New York, days of the fizzing of "the waters" at Saratoga and the journeys thither of troupes of the gentility, some driving up from as far as Virginia, their black slaves making...