Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Written especially for the Crime by John Rafferty O'Brian, Y. C. upon his return from the first authentic trip to St. Nicholas Island ever made by mortal man. Applause, please. Ready, Mr. Conductor...
...just the moment for such an exhibition. Of recent weeks the Manhattan press had been full of controversy over the desirability, from the standpoints of health, traffic, economics and art, of steepling and peopling further that rock-bottomed little island upon which whole new cities have been superimposed annually for a decade. The Chicago press, after months of extravagant paeans about Chicago's towering new hotels, newspaper cathedrals and dizzy spires for housing jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, athletes, chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction...
...tottering. They knocked each other down, made love. Seven fell into a creek and drowned. Thirteen, eating too much of the alcoholic seed, perished in agony. Sitting safely on a fence, Farmer Glenn Beall watched a scene not unlike the one a Greek saw when amorous swine on an island suggested the story of Circe; or that which took place in the country of the Gadarenes when a whole herd, possessed of devils, rushed down the steep into...
...latest novel, "The Dancing Floor," Mr. Buchan shifts somewhat his old location of the Highlands, and his gentlemen are not of his usual type of British sportsmen. It is, in fact, somewhat of a shock to see his technique work as well amongst the hills of an Aegan island as amongst his own Trossachs, and the psychological actuate his characters where once the adventurous ran them in and out of impossible situations. But the change is not displeasing nor unconvincing. He shows, moreover, a knowledge of ancient rites and prehistoric religions that lend a peculiar fascination to the tale...
John Newbold Robinson of Wakefield, Rhode Island...