Word: champlain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking curtain calls while the audience called for the ballerina. Ever since, Lifar has been grumpy, dissatisfied. Last week in Manhattan he challenged Ballet Director Leonide Massine to a duel in Central Park. Massine told him, "Take an aspirin." In a huff Lifar took instead the S. S. Champlain for Europe...
Fortnight ago, as the French liner Lafayette lay burning in a Havre drydock. the crew of the French liner Champlain was on strike in the same port. After midnight one night last week, two fires were discovered on the Champlain, one in a cabin, one in a linen locker. Both were quickly put out. A 22-year-old sailor named Joseph Salou, found in a companionway, was arrested. Sailor Salou confessed that he had started the fire in the cabin by dropping a cigaret. Said he: ''Overcome by realization of the enormity of my carelessness I tried...
...that she loved the U. S., loved to lecture, liked photographers, reporters, liked to see her name in electric lights on Times Square. When she sailed for the U. S., after a 30-year absence, with her companion, Alice B. Toklas, she enjoyed getting a luxurious stateroom on the Champlain for less than the price of a small one, as one of the privileges of fame. "People always had been nice to me," she confesses, "because I am pleasing but now this was going to be a different thing...
...work on his grandfather's farm near Portsmouth. Once more drink and an unguarded tongue fouled him with the authorities. He left town in a hurry, headed for General Amherst's French & Indian-fighting army at Crown Point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain. There he enlisted in Rogers' famed Rangers, just in time to join the heroic two months' march on and retreat from St. Francis, Canadian Indian village that had been the hornet-nest base for many a raid against the frontier settlements of New England...
...1840s a rangy, big-boned, imaginative young Vermonter named Apollos Smith operated a boat through the northern canal connecting Lake Champlain with the Hudson River. In the course of a hunting trip Apollos was enchanted by the chill beauty of the Adirondacks and decided to open a sportsmen's lodge on the Saranac River near Loon Lake. He built it himself, with a living room and kitchen on the first floor and eight thinly partitioned sleeping rooms upstairs. Board and lodging cost $1.25 a day; no women were admitted. From a barrel of whiskey standing in a corner guests...