Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secret: On the island of Formosa one Cho Meika, a Korean youth of 21, took a dose of poison, six weeks ago, and instantly thereafter threw a dagger at Prince...
...Spain), Bernardsville, N. J.; Miss Anne Gordon Colby, daughter of ex-Senator and Mrs. Everett Colby, West Orange, N. J.; Miss Anne Washington Ferine, lineal descendant of both the brother and half-brother of George Washington, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fairfax, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Mary Seton Lindsay, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, wife of the onetime Governor of Georgia, Atlanta; Miss Alcy Sivyer, Milwaukee; Miss Sylvia Brewster, Miss Charlotte B. Brown and Mrs. Lawrence B. Van Ingen, New York; Mrs. Edward A. Leight, Chicago; Miss Elizabeth Sturges, Providence, R. I.; and the onetime Miss Maude Hunnewell...
...ferry pier in Manhattan a crowd of commuters waiting for the boat that would take them to Staten Island saw a line of small boats come round the curve of the harbor. They were racing, each boat a dark point capping a triangle of spray; the commuters looked on with interest. Suddenly one boat choked, caught fire; the men on board could be seen working wildly, throwing something on the burning engine. The other boats swept on, then in a feather of foam one swerved, capsized; a coast guard cutter raced out to pick up the men in the water...
Next day the commuters read in their papers how the outboard motorboats that they had seen had raced round Staten Island and how Baby Olds, piloted by D. W. Brewster, had won after Miss Princess caught fire and the Corson upset. And they read how in all the waters fringing the continent little boats, big boats, sailboats, motorboats, were being launched, sailed, raced...
Outboard Motorboats last week lined up in Boston to race down the stretch of open water to the Cape Cod Canal, through the canal, Fisher's Island and Long Island Sounds to Flushing, N. Y. Along the coast four destroyers and 40 Coast Guard boats were stationed to mark the course, help the disabled. Seventy boats jockeyed around the starting line until a cannon boomed...