Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Than President Coolidge the U. S. people have seldom had a better tutor in U. S. geography. His person is the pointer, public prints are the textbook. Last week the President announced that he would spend his holidays on Sapeloe Island, off the coast of Georgia. Researches forthwith exhumed a history stretching continuously from the Mayan age to the U. S. tycoon age of today...
...Sapeloe Island, eight miles by four, lies between Brunswick and Savannah, close to the marsh-fringed mainland. Originally it belonged to the Creek Indians, whose ancestors left trinkets and earthworks showing they were influenced by the Mayan culture of distant Yucatan...
...make anything but a dumping ground for wretched immigrants from Dutch East Indies out of Dutch Guiana. Most notorious of all are the uses to which French Guiana has been put. In the penal settlements along the coast and on the famed lies du Salut, ("Devil's Island") between eight and nine thousand of the most hardened French criminals are left to rot; in fertile and promising French Guiana proper are less than 45,000 sleazy colonists and appallingly diseased natives...
Baseball is the chief interest of Japanese sporting bloods. Eighty thousand Nipponese gather to watch schoolboy baseball games. Each summer day on the Eastern Island crowds stand in the streets of town and city to hear the latest baseball scores. During the late World Series, to which Japanese newspaper correspondents travelled 8,000 miles. Japanese excitement eclipsed that shown in Manhattan or St. Louis. Were the World Series played in Japan, it would be necessary to hollow out the crater of Fujiyama to provide a stadium of suitable dimensions...
Died. Charles Caryl Coleman, 88, famed U. S. artist, native of Buffalo, veteran of the Union Army, who for 50 years has lived and painted on the Mediterranean island of Capri; at Capri. Buffalo. Detroit, Brooklyn, St. Louis & Louisville museums have his works...