Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover explained that he was a mere private engineer then, on vacation. Mr. Henry Clay Pierce, late owner of Cedar Island Lodge, did not invite -the visitor to enter, but Engineer Hoover found a back entrance and fished the Brule anyway...
...become the stock remark of tourists who catch sight of President Coolidge in northwestern Wisconsin. Brown, brisk, he continued his vacation last week unirritated. He cast flies on the Brule River at all hours and put the largest fishes which unsuccessfully tried to eat the flies into the Cedar Lodge "live box," so that he could display them to visitors or eat them at pleasure. He kept his semiweekly office hours in the high school library at Superior, and made one unscheduled trip on which Mrs. Coolidge accompanied him. She sat quietly at the window while he signed some papers...
...Howard Johnson, U. S. N., chief petty officer on the yacht Mayflower, is this summer a member of the President's retinue at Cedar Island Lodge. His especial duty has been the operation of a motion picture camera. But last week, as he walked along Brule River with President Coolidge, a new duty came to him. The President pointed to a flotilla of canoes, said: "You are the only Navy man in my party. I'll make you admiral of the fleet." Soon Officer Johnson was seen scrubbing the President's favorite fishing canoe...
...Story of Jesus -Emil Ludwig-translated by Eden and Cedar Paul-Boni & Liveright ($3.00). Emil Ludwig of Napoleon and Bismarck fame now tries his hand at a more dangerously familiar story-that of Jesus, Son of Man. Unadorned with the glittering paradoxes of Kenan's Vie, free from the sensationalism of Barbusse and the sentimentalism of Papini, clear of the pathos of the recent cinema version, Ludwig's is a popular, but none the less scholarly, interpretation. His indefatigable passion for historical records and documentary scraps immerses him in contemporary Latin and Greek commentaries, but chiefly...
...Wisconsin conservation commission had appointed John La Roque, a half-breed (Chippewa-French) several years older than Calvin Coolidge, to be the official Coolidge fishing guide. Newsgatherers, barred from the damp fastnesses of the Cedar Island estate by iron gates and soldiers, got hold of Guide La Roque and questioned him. Thus spoke...