Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four months ago, in April, the ram-swollen Mississippi River began to leap from its bed. Result: "the greatest national calamity since the Civil War"-a crawling sheet of water that left few dry spots between southern Illinois and the Gulf of Mexico. Last week the American Red Cross announced that all was not yet dry in the Mississippi Valley. Some 170,000 acres are still under water; 130,000 in Louisiana, 21,000 in Mississippi, 10,000 in Arkansas, 8,500 in Illinois. The Red Cross is at present providing food, clothing and shelter for 130,000 destitute flood...
When President Andrew Johnson was facing impeachment charges after the Civil War, Eddie Foy started on his career as a professional entertainer, turning handsprings in Manhattan saloons and "passing the hat" for an outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville...
...means the "father of the submarine." As early as 1775, Inventor David Bushnell made a practical model. Robert Fulton followed Bushnell's ideas with a Nautilus which dived down 25 feet and stayed down four hours, its crew breathing compressed air. The South used submarines in the Civil War and one sank the Federal warship Housatonic though swamped and sunk herself by her torpedo's explosion. The French Plongeur of 1863 was 146 feet long, driven by compressed air motor. The significant features of the Holland experiments were the in troduction of a gasoline engine and of internal ballast tanks...
Said the New York Herald-Tribune: "General Wood was the most eminent American soldier since the Civil...
Hangars, houses and steeples cance." "quietly The dropped into Super-Reporter insignifigance "above the foam of thickening clouds ... in the boiling fog which lay between us and the civil war . . . through the strange sky, in sane with sunset," to Bratislava. There, "everything was mad." The Super-Reporter's workaday comrades miraculously procured auto dark." mobiles in "that madness in the dark...