Word: gridley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed to recondition her and anchor her in the Potomac near Washington, where hordes of sightseers could poke fun at her outdated guns or gravely consider the footprints on her bridge, outlined in brass tacks, where Admiral (then Commodore) Dewey stood when he said: "You may fire when ready, Gridley...
...collection includes paintings of two Harvard men, famed as advocates in colonial times: Jeremiah Gridley, of the class of 1725, often called the "father of the Boston bar," and Benjamin Pratt, of the class of 1737, an eminent Boston lawyer and later chief justice of New York State. These two men were painted by Thomas Swibert of Boston, a famed American painter, ranked next to Copley in importance by many authorities on colonial artists...
This is the third recent occasion of Wisconsin dairies merging. Previously the National Dairy Products Corp. absorbed the Luick Ice Cream Co.; and the Gridley Dairy Co. (largest milk distributor in the Milwaukee district) bought the Mansfield Ice Cream...
...Marques del Duero and the sudden high voice of the cook cry out, as if the curse were a signal, "C a r a j o!" One of the men on the Olympic's bridge rubbed his cheek and said: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." At half past seven the firing-stopped because Commodore Dewey had won the battle of Manila Bay. San Juan Hill.* Along the edge of the sandy mounds that surround Santiago, Cuba, the U. S. Army waited until July. Then one morning the first cavalry, holding rifles across their chests, rushed...
...Gridley, Calif...