Word: driftwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven best: BLUE GRASS-PICKIN' COTTON HELEN KANE'S RECORD TEN LITTLE MILES FROM TOWN - DRIFTWOOD FAREWELL BLUES - STACK O'LEE BLUES I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE - SWEET LORRAINE SWEET ELLA MAY - THERE'LL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU WEST END BLUES-FIREWORKS...
...feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon gases which are then yalved into the motor in the ordinary way. An 80% reduction in fuel cost for light trucks was claimed. The truck could carry fagots enough for a 60-mile run without stopping; could refuel with anything driftwood, barrel staves, roots, cigar boxes...
Malamute Saloon, brought to fame by Rhymster Robert W. Service, still functions tamely; that igloos are seldom built of snow, but usually of driftwood and turfs; that William T. Lopp, onetime U. S. education chief for Alaska, got the Eskimos started in the reindeer industry, of which Carl Lomen is king; that there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch...
...night clubs, where she is toasted as Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...