Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the hero of that worst Arctic tragedy in U. S. history was informed that Congress had voted him its Medal of Honor. Thus to Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, a week before his gist birthday, went the recognition for which he had vainly waited half a century. Lieut. Greely returned from the Arctic to find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after...
General Greely has long outlived the bitterness he once felt because, while geographic societies in France, England, Russia, Argentina, Scotland and Sweden were doing him honor, his own Government continued to ignore his Arctic ordeal. Far more interesting to him last week than the memories of 1884 were the New Deal and the exploits of Adolf Hitler. Receiving interviewers at his home in Georgetown, D. C., the old soldier fingered his white brush, remarked: "When you get to be 90, medals don't seem as important as they do when you are younger...
Washington, March 24--A thousand "relief pioneers" now receiving government aid will go to new Alaska homes this summer on an Arctic frontier...
Refused permission to enter Russia, Andrew took his party in via the Arctic. One of them was killed in a crevasse, one lost a foot. Finally forced to turn back before they had found their German, they were arrested as spies. By the time they were safely out of Russia, Andrew had contracted a bad case of insomnia, daily headaches that nearly drove him crazy. A doctor told him his days were numbered, so he spent his last energy trying to find Greta again. In a little Baltic town he found her, the night ne'er-do-well Sandy...
Author-Actress. Mrs. Norris says of her life, "It's just neutral." Yet she certainly fits no stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...