Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert W. Chambers, Robert Cortes Holliday, W. B. Maxwell and many other writers, he started his artistic career drawing rather than writing and then discovered his aptitude lay in the telling of stories. Perhaps this explains why he has always preferred to dwell more on intimate character sketches of Cape Cod folk rather than to bother too greatly with plot. He sees his quaint people whole and puts them on paper so, sketches them lightly and then inks them in with dialogue and anecdote, the situation furnishing a light background to the picture. The other thing I discovered about...
Hubbard arrived in New York last week on the Homeric. He had expected to be back at college by the beginning of October in order to join the football coaching staff but delays in his rail trip back to Cape Town from Portuguese East Africa held him up. He stated that the transportation from Cape Town up the East Coast, a distance of 2000 miles, was so slow and primitively organized as to preclude his remaining with his brother more than a week. The rest of the summer was spent on route...
...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...
...session in Chicago, in Manhattan, Marcus Garvey and his associates (TIME, Aug. 11) made Negroes "noble." A procession marched into Liberty Hall, which was formerly a garage. First came a beadle, then an archdeacon, then a priest in red biretta, then Bishop McGuire of Africa in a purple cape and mitre of gold cloth, carrying a crook and wearing his bishop's ring of amethyst over a pair of white gloves. At the rear came Marcus Garvey in a feathered hat and George O. Marke, Royal Potentate, who came from Sierra Leone for the ceremony...
...globe-circling aeronauts sat in lonely Reykjavik (Iceland) and looked out westward over a cold grey sea. Naval scouts wirelessed them that the eastern harbors of Greenland were jammed with ice-floes, that their next hop would have to be 825 miles, to Ivigtut on a southerly Greenland cape. That meant they would need to carry extra fuel. Hoisting spare gasoline tankards aboard, the pilots started their engines, sought to take off. But the tankards were too heavy. The planes could not rise. Exasperated, the pilots tossed away every nonessential ounce, repaired minor breakage occasioned by their false starts, shot...