Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alive and insane in the frozen wilderness; his plane had been forced down and his mechanic had committed suicide after three years of hardships. Twelve more years passed; Captain Ramper's hair grew long, covered his body; he lost the power of articulate speech. Then some fishermen discovered him. They thought that he was a strange breed of polar ape. He was clapped into a cage, taken back to Germany, sold to a dime museum. A Professor Barbazin suspects that there is a human spark beneath the coat of fur, so he buys Captain Ramper. Speech and sanity...
...Superior. There, in the high school, will be President Coolidge's office. Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin swiftly promised to mend the red clay roads in the northwestern corner of his State. Six miles from the Lodge is Brule, a five-street village (unpaved) inhabited by 200 Finnish fishermen. Four miles beyond Brule is Lake Nebagamon and the Congregational Church and Rev. John Taylor. Mr. Taylor is blind, uses a Bible printed in Braille. Perhaps Mr. Taylor will be taken for a cruise on the Navy cutter that will attend the President's pleasure in Superior harbor...
Raquel Meller has been the object of much myth. However, it is generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago; that she sang in a convent, in fishermen's cafes, before the King of Spain; that she has acquired three maids, eight dogs. 42 trunks of fine clothes; that she smokes cigarets tantalizingly. Her one-time husband, Gomez Carillo, South American journalist, once thought she was insane. But the Pope annulled that marriage...
...Canary Islands some fishermen found a man lying exhausted in the bottom of a 20-foot row boat. He, Captain Franz...
...Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, for 36 years medical missionary to Labrador fishermen, toured the U. S., took notes, then told a Montreal audience of his findings: "Whiskey is $10 a quart in Chicago. ... It is said that prohibition has been a failure in New York but I learned that societies which used to care for neglected children have closed their doors for want of something to do. Prohibition is the best thing that ever struck...