Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George W. Vanderbilt: "I am a busy woman. Last week I was elected president of the Congressional Club [the most important feminine-political-social position in Washington], I manage my onetime husband's large estates in Biltmore, N. C. Since my marriage to Senator Gerry of Rhode Island I go to the Capitol almost half as much as Mrs. Longworth. At balls I have heard it whispered that I dress like an empress...
...addition, Navy monuments will be erected on the Island of Corfu and on the rock of Gibraltar...
Figures made public yesterday by the Yale Alumni Weekly representing the enrollment of students by states of the classes of 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929 at Yale, Harvard and Princeton, indicate that Harvard leads in ten states. They are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, Georgia, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Montana and Idaho...
There was revolt in the village of Jolo on the island of Sulu in the territory of the Philippines. Two hundred Moros, led by Datu Tahil and his wife, Princess Tarhata Kiram, who is daughter of the Sultan of Sulu and a onetime University of Illinois coed, vexed the constabulary. Not wishing to shed the blood of her people, Princess Tarhata set forth last week to talk peace with Governor General Leonard Wood at Manila, to. ask him for a Moro governor for the island of Sulu...
...grease and some in bathing suits, some young, some old, all fat, all strong, all more or less indistinguishable as to sex and features, surrounded by tug boats, press boats, ferryboats, launches, shouted at by coaches, fed by trainers, 96 able swimmers got into the cold water at Catalina Island, one day last week and turned their numerous, goggled, and determined faces toward the unseen California mainland, 2 miles away. Day faded. Light came out on the shore. Now an then on the bow of a tug a trainer lit a red flare to show that his swimmer...