Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Civilized countries where women do not have the right to vote: Belgium, Spain, Italy, Jugoslavia, Japan Women's suffrage exists in only 28 states: Eng land, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, British East Africa, Rhodesia, Jamaica, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Holland, Rumania, Serbia, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the United States, Poland, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine...
...Liverpool, the steamer Iceland sailed out of the Mersey bearing Grettir Algarsson of Victoria, B. C, the rash young man who planned to fly over the North Pole in a small dirigible and only abandoned the plan when his air-ship's construction was delayed. The Iceland was bound for Gilles Land (east of Spitsbergen) where Mr. Algarsson proposed to do geological surveying. He will then attempt to go (by boat, sled and foot) "further north than any expedition this year," not excluding Amundsen's and MacMillan...
...manufacturers of surgical supplies at New Brunswick, N. J., was soon to nose into the north with both Johnson brothers aboard. Their destination was to be Newfoundland, where they would search the ice-bitten shores for traces of the 40-ft. sloop Leif Ericsson which sailed out of Reykjavik, Iceland, last August under an amateut Norwegian skipper with a party of artists to "follow the trail of the Vikings" to Nova Scotia. Last winter, the U. S. cruiser Trenton scoured Northern waters for these missing mariners, found nothing...
...married to Miss Theodate Pope, an architect by profession. Just 365 days earlier, she had been aboard the Lusitania which, when hit by a German torpedo, sank, throwing her unconscious into the water and drowning her two traveling companions. Shortly after her marriage, she went with her husband to Iceland and, en route, a boiler blew up and later the vessel burned at her pier. In 1921, she went with Mr. Riddle to Argentina. Six months later, she was obliged to return to New York on architectural matters and, during the voyage, the vessel's rudder jammed...
...expedition from its start last summer to its finish when the planes arrived at Washington in September. He was extremely fortunate in the matter of accidents until the fateful last lap of the trip, when the Army flier attempted to span the Atlantic by the way of Iceland and Greenland...