Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is of course in the Island, as well as in the U. S. and all other countries of this continent, a small percentage of Negroes, descendants of slaves brought in by white settlers...
Figures told the story of U. S. prison-crowding. Atlanta was built to hold 1,712 men. Its present population is 3,787. Leavenworth's capacity is 2,000, its population, 3,758. Chillicothe, Ohio, has 250 more prisoners than its capacity of 1,000. Only McNeil Island, Wash., is below capacity. As of June 1, U. S. prisoners were incarcerated as follows: In Federal prisons?10,200; in State prisons?1,200; in county jails?...
...Voisin where she always has a certain corner table. . . . They know her in Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, New York, and points west as the nun in The Miracle, and all over Europe as a member of Max Reinhardt's Repertoire company. . . . She shuttles between New York and an island off the coast of Maine by train, car, and speed boat. . . . Her personal car is HUPMOBILE. She drives it herself. One admiring Westchester motor cop has said...
...Morgan, Francis Lee Higginson and the chairman, famed Owen D. Young, was scheduled to meet in Manhattan at 11 a. m. Promptly on the hour they trooped aboard Director Baker's Viking, 272-foot seagoing yacht. While General Electric motors propelled the Viking down Long Island Sound they transacted business, pocketed the gold pieces always given directors for incidental expenses,, adjourned for luncheon. The afternoon was spent on a pleasure jaunt, no minutes being kept of what was said or done...
Still ignorant of the winner, the "49ers" went to Coney Island that night, and then on a sight-seeing trip through Manhattan. The Edison staff, cautious gentlemen, advised leaving watches at home and taking no more than...