Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soft music and beautiful singing. As if this were not bad enough, she interested herself in the plays of Socialist Gerhart Hauptmann and Communist Ernst Toller. ¶ Recently, vainglorious Wilhelm II had two portraits painted. In one, he was dressed as a general; in the other, as an Arctic explorer. The story (probably false) said that even the respectful and faithful servants of His ex-Majesty were convulsed with laughter every time they looked at the latter's portrait. ¶ The German veterans of the Weli-krug invited the ex-Crown Prince to a meeting. Replied he in declining...
William J. Ziedlik, a radiothusiast of East Grand Forks, Minn., picked from the ether a radio message. It had come 2,000 miles from the Schooner Bowdoin in which Capt. Donald B. MacMillan was exploring the Arctic within 650 miles of the North Pole. Said the message...
...crossed Smith Sound to Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Island, with dog team three times. There we landed the National Geographic Society's memorial tablet in commemoration of 'Starvation Camp', the site of the disaster of the ill-fated Greely Arctic Expedition of 1881. All in all, we covered 2,000 miles with dog team...
...formerly friendly lips. And the uncertainty as to further advance is harrowing. Also they are broke. The Government allowed them $8-a-day expenses on the world flight and they will have to account for every dollar to recover. Yet in London alone they spent $300 apiece for their Arctic equipment; they are $1,000 out of pocket. "Will we really fly home and will we ever get our money back?" are not worries that these brave men deserve...
...their entire flight, the U. S. world flyers have never had any clothes except those they stood in. With the enormous gasoline loads their ships had to carry, they could not even have the luxury of the extra weight of a spare pair of socks. When they landed from arctic regions, they threw away their winter kit and bought lighter garb. Last week they were stationed at the small village of Brough on the Humber in England, having an "easy time"- though working feverishly all day, overhauling their motors, reconditioning their planes-and purchasing new cold-weather outfits for their...