Mr. Hamlin’s hand passed carressingly twice or thrice along her sleeve with a peculiar gentleness that seemed to magnetize her.

– China, 1920: up to 235,000 reported killed This earthquake, measured at 8.3, hit the Haiyuan county of the northern province of Ningxia and caused aftershocks for several years.

By May 1948 they were carrying out the first ship-to-shore trooplifts.

The words set to this music were written by Charles Hansen Towne, also a New Yorker, and as Mr. Werrenrath is a New Yorker, and according to his version of it, the song is full of little “New Yorkians.”