Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are a Ringling Boulevard and a Main Ringling Boulevard, Ringling Causeway, Ringling Island and Ringling Trust & Savings Bank, but the town is still called Sarasota, Fla. The bank and all the shops were closed last week to honor the latest benefaction of Sarasota's first citizen: the opening of the Junior College and School of Art of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher and Congressman Herbert Jackson Drane were there to make speeches. Bishop John Monroe Moore gave the benediction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His moonlike face wreathed in smiles, John...
...best my time-dimmed memory will do, the Northern Pacific's crack limited of that bygone period moved westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case no one was hurt...
...small island in Lake Michigan, accessible to Chicago's Grant Park by a causeway, gathered last week Julius Rosenwald, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Rufus Dawes, Max Adler and many Chicago bigwig. In a squatty rainbow granite building which looked much like a giant derby hat resting on a pedestal, they sat down, craned their necks to watch the ceiling...
Gertrude L. Thebaud. People drove over from Gloucester and Rockport, parked their cars along the causeway and up all the side streets and along the main road clear to the Essex Depot. Workmen knocked out the blocks and a two-masted fishing schooner skimmed down the ways and across the Essex River. They had put on no snubbing line so the craft bedded into the soft earth of the opposite bank. Paid for by Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud, their son-in-law Robert McCurdy. and Basset Jones - all "summer people"; built by Capt. Arthur D. Story; designed to outsail...