Word: corals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cuyo Island, veritable Eden in the Sulu Sea. Col. Thompson, pleased, ambled beneath outlandish cocoanut palms, low luscious mangoes. No phones, newspapers, railroads, trolleys or automobiles marred this hot perfection. Ah, to be a barefoot native! . . . But business pressed. Mr. Thompson reluctantly doffed his white helmet to the glistening coral beach, proceeded to the Island of Palawan where a launch took him up the Iwahig River to the Iwahig Penal Colony. Here he saw crocodiles, alligators, exuberant tropic vegetation. He saw, also, 1,700 convicts living happily with their wives and children, cultivating their own crops, often saving as much...
...wide. Hack horses and bicycles simply cannot keep up the pace, either of today's onion industry or of modern fashions in holiday-making. Last week, after a 50-year struggle with transportation, the islanders announced that they would have, not automobiles to bury the scenery in pulverized coral from the roads, but a discreet little third-rail electric railroad, linking St. George, Hamilton and Somerset Ferry. The Bermuda Railway Co. Ltd. was careful to add that its trains would have trailers, for baggage and bicycles." Die-hard Bermudans nevertheless shook their heads. "Alas," said they, "and then...
...coast line has shallow ports which we must enter, trusting to defective charts, mostly based on surveys by British warships before 1840. We have reason to think, therefore, that our hydrographer, Commander Ogden T. McClurg, will be able to gather much information of value to future navigators of these coral-torn waters...
...President Harrison H. Appleby, Vice President Coral Royce, Secretary of State Margaret Grenning, Secretary of the Treasury Lauren Parrot, Secretary of Commerce Evelyn Reglin, called at the White House, were shaken by the hand and thanked for a resolution from the George Junior Republic of Freeyille, N. Y., indorsing the President's views on the World Court...
...about him through one enormous glassy eye. To their heads were attached trailing rubbery tubes like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down to them through the sea from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral, letting light-obscuring shoals of fish swim over and about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire mesh. From time to time...