Word: fog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rain turned to warm fog, then back to rain. President Coolidge did not visit his office in the high school at Superior. Col. Lindbergh was reported flying to Brule from Madison, Wis., but he flew on over, landed at St. Paul. One newsgatherer got desperate and hired Carl Miller, a nephew of Guide La Roque, to paddle him seven miles down the Brule from a place called Stone Bridge. Past beaver houses, mink holes, deer licks, naked rampikes, swarms of mosquitoes and a military outpost, who carefully examined the voyageurs, the newsgatherer came to a thin hedge screening the river...
...Graciously, President Coolidge desired to accept a return consignment of goodwill brought from Mexico City to Washington by Captain Emilio Carranza, 20, Mexican flying ace. Forced by fog to land at Mooresville, N. C., in his Ryan monoplane, sister ship of the Spirit of St. Louis, Captain Carranza had refused nourishment, had mused: "I guess the people in Washington won't be so glad to see me now and my countrymen won't be so proud of me." President Coolidge determined to provide nourishment and dispel unhappy fears by a public mark of favor. He asked Captain Carranza...
...Some years ago two young men sailed a small boat, built on the south shore of Cape Cod, to the purchaser at Marblehead. As they rounded the Cape a thick fog came on, and thinking they might have to drop the anchor quickly in the night they brought it aft, with the rope fast, and lashed it on the quarter by the cock-pit. When morning came, and they could see somewhat through the haze, they found themselves off Minot's Ledge instead of Marblehead. The anchor on the quarter had caused a deviation of the compass in the cock...
...evening walk, wondering if his enduring tenderness for Lorie was an evil contradiction of his sound intellectual belief that nothing was eternal but the past, that is to say, death. Pondering on these things, wondering too if justice consisted of more than sympathy, the professor trudged through the fog, down by the river, and home again by the rustic bridge. At the gate a servant awaited him eagerly to say that Lorie had cried buckets and was "all broke up," because she had had to go to bed, leaving Hergesell at the party with his blonde. The professor rushes...
...Sella Polare, the Duke of Abruzzi's ship, once wintered, here Francesco Querini heroically lost his life in the Cegni polar expedition of 1909, here in loyal commemoration Nobile dropped a symbol of St. Mark upon the ice. Low over the ice flew the Italia, through a dense fog, into a head wind, its speed cut to 40 miles, ice forming on its sides. Gradually the air cleared, visibility improved. Lenin Land, discovered by the Russians 15 years ago, was the next objective. General Nobile hoped to land a scientific party on Lenin Land but so thick...