Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Filipinos, protesting, have termed the administration of Governor-General Leonard Wood the "Cavalry Cabinet." Smooth, alliterative, the phrase vividly suggests booted, spurred cavalrymen administering Island affairs to the accompaniment of clanking sabres. Such a picture, of course, overlooks the facts that the Filipinos have their own legislature and that a majority of Island administrative offices are held by natives. Still, the 1926 report of Carmi Thompson on the Islands did criticize the "military atmosphere" surrounding the administration, and the many U. S. Army uniforms around Malacanan Palace (seat of the Philippine government) have been no healing sight for sore Filipino...
Thus James McGrath, railroad worker, occupant of rooms in a house on the upper end of Manhattan, Island. Experts in the restoration of paintings ruefully agreed that "those birds have flown away for good." Ruefully, because the house where James McGrath lived used to be known as "Minniesland" and the land around it as Audubon Park. In "Minniesland" lived John James Audubon (1780-1851), famed wanderer of the trackless American wilderness, hirsute ornithologist and painter extraordinary of wild life. Beyond a doubt the palimpsest laid bare by Mr. McGrath on his kitchen walls was the work, casual or studied...
...Transcendentalist, brilliant conversationalist and essayist; reviewed books of Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Longfellow, Poe, Lowell, et al., for the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley; was feted in England; married a dashing Italian; experienced and chronicled the Roman Revolution. Returning home, aged 40, she was shipwrecked and drowned off Fire Island...
Died. Clara Louise Burnham, 73, author, daughter of Dr. George F. Root, famed composer of many civil war songs including "Just Before the Battle, Mother" in Bailey's Island, Me.; from heart disease...
...Manhattan, where tall buildings have begun to cause concern, the Broadway Association last week noted, on the basis of new surveys, that every story of a skyscraper brought 1,000 more people to a neighborhood. But land is so dear on Manhattan Island that buildings must be tall to earn enough income for expenses. Thus last week Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin, constructors, announced that their new building at Lexington Ave. and 42nd St. would be 625 feet, 52 stories high. The location is as costly as land within the "Broadway district," a strip of streets about 200 blocks...