Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England Flood...
North of New England, the Province of Quebec reported millions in flood destruction. The rain fell there for three days steadily. Railways and shipping were disorganized in the upper Hudson Valley...
...King George. Unlike his royal son the sovereign has proved unpopular, even in the comparatively fat role of arch-villain. And there was racing and chasing behind the scenes until they found the very sets to be rushed on and save the reputation of the house--the big flood scenes of the Mississippi River. Human interest, gripping incidents and, looking east'ard to the sea, timeliness...
...Washington. His main purpose in making the trip he announced, shouting to make himself heard above the din of his combined quartette and sailor orchestra "is to assure the President that the people of Chicago are virtually 100 per cent in favor of legislation that will settle the Mississippi flood problem." Chicago is a large city on Lake Michigan...
...Scott Fitzgerald, whose first novel carried the name of Princeton before the public eye in a story which brought on a flood of imitators, has written a sketch of life at his alma mater for a current magazine, College Humor,--but the name has no bearing on his article. For it is not a humorous article, nor does it have that mixture of sharpness and sentiment which marked the time when "the tide of war rolled up the sands where Princeton played." He writes not now as a very recent graduate, but from the distance of over a decade...