Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Coolidge, after spending a weekend at Madison, Wis., as guest of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, was asked how he passes the time at Cedar Island Lodge. Said he: "Eat breakfast. Take a little walk. Read. Eat lunch. Walk. Read. Eat dinner. Walk. Read...
Over 205 miles an hour was the pace sustained, last week, between Boiling Field, Washington, D. C., and Mitchell Field, Long Island, by Lieutenant Ford J. Lauer and Gordon P. Saville...
...twins, Siamese ones, who live in Texas, owe their fame and vaudeville contracts especially to him. Last fortnight this press-agent for Loew's Vaudeville Circuit turned his talents on another female pair, the Gibb twins, Mary and Margaret, joined since birth and recent members of a Coney Island freak museum. Very discreetly, he let it be known in newspaper offices that one of them was in love and that they would therefore submit to a separation...
...inexhaustible resources to supply paper of all sorts to U. S. and Canadian consumers. Of these private companies, the greatest is International Paper Co., operating more than 30 pulp and paper mills, holding timber lands in fee or under Crown lease larger than the combined areas of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachussetts and Long Island...
They led Julius Shaefer, 10, onto Curtiss flying field, Long Island. They dragged him close to a plane. He tried to resist, digging his heels into the earth. His big brother climbed into the plane's cockpit to show that the monster would not bite. They lifted Julius into the machine. Trembling with mute terror he clung to his mother, who also trembled while they put a stout strap about the boy's waist and fastened it securely to the plane seat. They put double straps about his arms. He tried to scream. He strained at his fastenings...