Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Advisory Chairman-Peter Gollet Gerry, the wealthy well-born Harvard-bred hound-riding U. S. Senator from Rhode Island who upset traditional Republican calculations in his state as a young man (1916-he is now 48) and has since continued popular with his state's large labor vote...
...Berengaria. It was consigned to Manhattan's new Hotel Piccadilly, which opened its doors last week. As credentials, Bellhop Vannard brought jealously guarded recipes of Piccadilly the Elder to Piccadilly the Younger. None of these, however, impressed immigration authorities, who rudely consigned bellhop, pudding, recipes, to Ellis Island, until Bellhop Vannard might submit proof he would not become a public charge...
...Lincoln Highway of the Arctic follows a line drawn, roughly, from the extreme northern point of Norway across the island of Spitsbergen to Point Barrow, Alaska. If you fly about half this distance and look down, as likely as not you will see the block of ice which happens to be the North Pole. At that point you may shake hands, as Pilgrims Byrd and Bennett did in May, 1926. Or you may bare your head, as Pilgrims Nobile, Amundsen, Ellsworth, etc., did in May, 1926. Or you may fly sternly on, as Pilgrims Wilkins and Eielson did in April...
Married. Betty Brown Tailer, 17, Manhattan scioness, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer; to Walter Gurnee Dyer, son of Brig. Gen. George R. Dyer, grandson of onetime Governor Elisha Dyer of Rhode Island...
...affair reacted upon the Laurentano family in intricate fashion. The prince's vulgar bride eloped with the widower of the murdered lady-friend. Lando barely escaped the island where he had abetted the riots. Sicily was put under martial law, and the old Garibaldino Mauro, frenzied by the impertinence of upstart socialists, fared forth with his medals and pistols of 1860 to assist the state troopers. These unimaginative souls mistook him for a rioter, and shot him in a street fight...