Word: lisbon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lisbon. Through a cordon of vociferous police a band of students sprang. Shouting greetings they swung cloaks off their shoulders and spread them for the feet of Miss Ruth Elder. Touched, she thanked them; excited and faintly afraid of the pushing Portugese she clung to the arm of Fred Morris Dearing, American Minister to Portugal. Lisbon revelled. As she stepped to the mainland of Europe (14 days almost to the hour after taking off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, with pilot George W. Haldeman for a transatlantic flight which ended when they were hoisted from the ocean off the Azores...
...Every noteworthy company engaged in practical transportation by air in the two hemispheres has been reached in the search for operating statistics and organization data. In addition to this thorough canvass of aviation corporations, the Business School has written to the American chambers of Commerce in Athens, Brussels, Tokyo, Lisbon, Calcutta, Rio de Janciro, and every other important city in the world...
...sent the Yale man, Hugh R. Wilson, to succeed Hugh S. Gibson* as U. S. Minister. Keen-witted, methodical, Mr. Wilson, of a family of Chicago wholesalers, a onetime Chairman of the Yale Daily News, entered the diplomatic service as private secretary to the U. S. Minister at Lisbon. Recently he has been chief of the bureau of current information in the Department of State...
Meanwhile the British cruiser Comics had steamed up the Rio Tejo (Tagus), and was keeping London and the world informed about events at Lisbon with her wireless. It appeared that for two days the Carmona Government had deliberately halted all the railways, posts and electric communications, lest uncensored news leak out of Portugal. When the situation cleared up it was found that the U, S. Consul at Oporto had been extremely lucky. Five minutes after he left his room in the Grande Hotel do Porto†† a bomb was light-heartedly tossed in at the window by a passing...
...Quem nao tern visto Lisbon, noa tern visto cousa...