Word: cairnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began the famed last lap, alone except for his Negro servant and four Eskimos. His claim: That in five days he covered the remaining 150 miles to the Pole (April 6), made the necessary observations, left a fragment of the flag and a message in a snow cairn, traveled the 150 miles back to the camp at 87° 47' in 56 hours...
Died. Slipper, 2, vivacious sandy Cairn terrier sent by the Duke of Windsor last month to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson; of a viper bite; in a veterinary hospital in Tours, France. Mrs. Simpson telephoned the Duke the bad news, canceled the day's engagements. Besides Slipper the Duke took with him when he abdicated Cairn terriers Cora (10), John (8), Jaggers...
...drinking water sufficient to last the colonists until the Itasca returned. And on the theory that the islands' designation as British on some world maps might be construed as a precedent for British possession, a U. S. flag was raised on each island, and mounted on a cairn of stones were legends like this graven in lead plates...
...Rachel McDowell is bigger than her religion. . . . Her own are stoning her for her courage. When they have piled their cairn high I should like to place on it: "Rachel McDowell, Honest Woman! I Salute...
...godmother for an Eskimo baby (which, like all Eskimo babies, had a blue patch on its back), wore sealskin trousers (she had "to wiggle about very skillfully to get in"), hung up a world's record ("the northernmost point ever visited by a foreign diplomat"). A commemorative cairn is to be erected on the spot (Upernivik), with inscriptions in English and Eskimo. She ate whale skin ("a most toothsome delicacy") but balked at dried seal intestines. Before a U. S. Coast Guard cutter carried her to the U. S. she was given an Eskimo name, Inunguak ("real human being...