Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rhode Island Nevada...
...Nominee because the committee was debating, and soon would vote, whether or not he was to continue as a Nominee for the Presidency, whether or not he was to be withdrawn and returned to private life as just plain William F. ("Bill") Varney of Rockville Centre, Long Island...
Rear Admiral G. F. Hyde, commander-in-chief of the Royal Australian Navy, docked in New York harbor his flagship, the 10,000-ton Australia. His sailors did the city, the shows and Coney Island. He and some of his officers watched polo matches on Long Island. Then the Australia steamed away to pay a visit to the U. S. naval academy...
...sleek pony stretched his neck, drew back his body, shook at the withers, coughed. Soon many another pony was coughing. There was consternation in the Long Island stables wherein were quartered the ponies, for the cough-claque lessened the chances of victory for the Argentine polo team, ready to battle a U. S. four for the championship of the Americas...
Flying was the business of Mazel M. ("Merry") Merrill, director of the Curtiss Flying Service, and Edwin M. Ronne, manager of the Buffalo Airport. On their engagement pad, last week, was the item: "Take Lindbergh's orange-colored Falcon from Buffalo to Curtiss Field, Long Island." It was, ostensibly, a simple and pleasant item in their business. But they were killed while performing it. A fog, a thickly-wooded hillside near Milford, Pa., a crash into the treetops, a completely demolished Falcon and two burned bodies told the story, crudely...