Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before President Roosevelt left Newport and the America's Cup races, he shouted over the rail of the Nourmahal to newshawks, who had had some rough sailing keeping up with him: "I hear some of you boys lost your vocabularies . . . ." Presidential laughter boomed out over the water as he added: "Never mind, I'll try to find them for you on the way back...
After an hour of prayers the people beheld the dark mass grow soft, turn red, increase in volume, bubble into a liquid. "Il miracolo e fatto!" cried the officiant. ''The miracle is made!" The choir sang a Te Deum. The worshippers scrambled up to the altar rail to kiss the reliquary. Outside sounded a nine-gun salute...
Gouverneur Morris Phelps Jr., son of a well-known Manhattan physician, stood at the rail with his father and stepmother. Plainly visible were the shore lights across the stormy waters. Dr. Phelps turned to his wife and said: "Katharine, that light over there must be Scotland Lisht and that one over there must be Ambrose. That means that the beach over there must be less than seven miles away. I think, dear, our one chance is to go over and try to make the beach on our own. Will you come?" Mrs. Phelps smiled through her tears and nodded. Then...
Well does Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper know how to pleasure his friends. He does it by importing watermelons from his native South Carolina. So tender and so succulent are these great green fruit that he has them brought by automobile lest they be damaged traveling by rail. Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each...
...Vagabond idled over the rail of bridge, concealed from the vulgar gaze by the gathering dusk and by the bulky base of the great salt-shaker pillar. The subway trains, momentarily elevated, flashed by, each square of light framing the back of a head, a neck and a pair of shoulders. Twelve minutes from the South Station, said the Rollo Book, in the misty past when the Vagabond made his first trip to Cambridge. As inaccurate as the catalogue estimates of laboratory hours. Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty...