Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime U. S. button-presser is President Hoover. But last week the President could not oblige. In his stead Vice President Curtis did some button-pressing to flash a signal from Washington to Rhode Island. There a cannon boomed salutes. An airplane dropped noisemakers. U. S. Cruiser Dallas tooted its whistle. Two little girls cut ribbons while silk-hatted notables stood by. These ceremonious alarums celebrated the opening of the new Mt. Hope suspension bridge, world's seventh largest, connecting the two sea-severed fragments of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Best ceremony: initiation of Rhode Island...
...rock spur of a Lake Huron island was impaled the S. S. Maplecourt. Coast-Guardsmen, defying the walloping surf, rescued her crew...
...came S. 0. S. signals. Henry Ford's lumber barge Lake Frugality and the steamer Chicago were both driven aground. Their crews clambered off unharmed. Lake Frugality's crew debarked on the mainland, but Chicago's crew of 32, less lucky, found themselves on a desolate island. Faced with starvation, seven of them straggled nine miles through a bramble-clogged swamp to an Indian settlement. The Indians peeled off their ice-caked clothing, gave them food, but stolidly refused to try to reach their derelict companions. Not until four days later, when the seas had abated, were...
...live on a great island continent away from the other continents and unprotected. It is therefore of great importance to us not to become embroiled in quarrels that have stained the history of olden lands...
Eccentric Harald Plum has long been Copenhagen's butter Croesus. The boom of a cannon across the harbor came to mean merely that he was through business for the day and had sailed out to Plum Island, to chomp voraciously through a rich dinner topped with pastry and champagne...