Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Police captured Mr. Lyle, and brought him before Magistrate William Croak of the Stapleton Police Court, Staten Island. Attorneys for Mr. Lyle secured his release on $5,000 bail to have a sinus operation. Dr. John McCoy of Manhattan operated for sinus trouble, removed the inflamed infected tonsils, studied the intestinal disorders, the low blood pressure. The five abscessed teeth were pulled...
Otto H. Kahn last week had delivered to him his new, triple-engined motorboat Okeha II, great, comfortable vessel, of the type that a score of Manhattan financiers have been buying to carry them swiftly from Long Island Sound summer homes to Manhattan docks. Mr. Kahn's boat cost him approximately $85,000; costs more than $100 daily to operate...
...Chicago presents a cab problem, New York City presents a greater. Chief City Magistrate William McAdoo last fortnight deplored the presence of 17,000 cabs, most of them plying night and day in the congested runways of an island only 12½by12½ miles. Competition between the 17,000 is so great that, in Mr. McAdoo's words, "You can stand on any corner and count the number of taxicabs in proportion to other vehicles and two-thirds of them are taxicabs, cruising, cruising, empty, empty, everywhere...
This he does, with a knife and a small stick. Then, having provided at least one of the natives of Fanua with a divinity, he leaves the island. He is sorry to desert his only convert, but hearing Lueli as he babbles happy confidences into the wooden ear of God, Mr. Fortune decides that he has done the wisest thing...
Lazy, fantastic Clergyman Fortune leaves St. Fabien parish, whither he has come from a London countinghouse, and journeys to Fanua, an island whose Christian population is even smaller than that of his first missionary situation. At Fanua he succeeds in converting one of the natives, by name, Lueli...