Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...host of Third Termites busily boring in the frame of U. S. politics was last week added the biggest & best to date, no less a personage than Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley. At Mackinac Island, where he went to exhort Michigan Democrats to elect Rooseveltians to Congress, he was asked about his own Presidential ambitions for 1940. Bluntly Jim Farley replied...
...craze for de luxe "camping" on the beach is this season's big fad on the once-again-prosperous French Riviera. One hotel leased an entire island, which it promptly covered with tents. Another, at fashionable Cap d'Antibes. has put up tents in its gardens, erected a string of midget-sized bungalows on its beach. Despite the spacious comfortable hotel rooms only a few yards away, diplomats, statesmen, cinema celebrities have preferred to live like beachcombers in abodes which for the most part lack plumbing, hot water, screens...
Last week a more scientific way of dealing with starfish was reported by Science Service from the U. S. Fisheries Biological Laboratory at Milford, Conn. The method, successfully tested in Long Island Sound, is to drop a barrage of quicklime through the water on the oyster beds. Quicklime, which is cheap and corrosive, eats holes in starfishes' skin, exposes their vitals, finally kills them. A quicklime bombardment of 480 lb. per acre of sea floor disposed of four starfish out of five. The chemical does no appreciable harm to the better-protected oysters, clams, crabs...
...meeting and also take pictures on the floor during trading hours. But chiefly he astonishes his broker associates by eating at the Automat, living at the Yale Club, spurning an automobile as too expensive, preferring to study or sit in a theatre balcony to splurging at some swank Long Island resort...
...Ireland without St. Patrick is unthinkable," declares Gogarty. "Every person in our island shares something of the personality of that steadfast and enduring man. . . ." But this is only Gogarty's briefly stated conclusion. The main content of his tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies...