Word: canalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey by Upton Sinclair, radical novelist. Poor, Sinclair Lewis lived by writing children's verse and squib jokes for magazines until he obtained an assistant editorship on the now defunct monthly Transatlantic Tales. He left that position to seek another in the building of the Panama Canal but, failing that, returned obscurely to Yale for his degree. He became a newsgatherer first in New Haven, later elsewhere. But in streetcars and on commuting trains he appeased something that was gnawing within him by writing fiction, mostly pot boilers. In 1914 he published Our Mr. Wrenn, his first novel. That...
...were in love with Jane: solid Fred, radical Ernest. Fred could not read or write but knew all there was to know about handling a canal barge. (If you think little technique is required in Fred's profession. Author Herbert's account of a trip up the "Cut" from London to Birmingham will teach you better.) Fred was honest and capable, but gave Jane nary a thrill. Ernest was a bright one, talked socialism at her 16 to the dozen; when he paused for breath took liberties. Jane did not really like him but he did excite her. But when...
...Publisher George Henry Doran away from his own book firm to run the Hearst-Cosmopolitan Book Corp. But eclipsing all these milestones was that French business. Nothing like it had come to Mr. Hearst since the golden years when he was precipitating the Spanish-American war, getting the Panama Canal fortified, startling the nation with the Yellow Peril...
...When Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, appears at an aquatic function, such as the opening of the giant Ymuiden lock of the North Sea Canal (TIME, May 12), she is greeted by "Houzee! Houzee!" contraction for the Dutch naval cheer "Houdt de Zee!" ("Hold...
...Taft-Roosevelt feud. In March 1912, he sailed for a European holiday. In April he returned on the Titanic, was lost with the ship. President Taft ordered all flags half-staffed for him throughout the land. Augusta built a $40,000 Butt memorial bridge across its yellow canal...