Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge celebrated the close of his fifth year in office with a short railroad trip. It is only about a three-hour journey from Cedar Island lodge to a place called Hibbing in the Minnesota hinterland. Thither the President journeyed in a special train provided by U. S. Steel Corp., a train that had been examined and guarded with utmost care for 48 hours before its great passenger went aboard. Steel Corporation guards were posted at switches and trestles. Some 700 American Legion men were mobilized for guard duty at stations. No spectator was allowed to approach within...
...party's name derives from something meaning "the people," "the crowd," "the mob." Last week, overheated in Manhattan after a several-days' sojourn at cool Hampton Bays, L. I., he thought it would be appropriate for him to go in bathing with Demos at Coney Island...
Another graph "The Man Who Loved Islands" registers the lifetime development of a man's passion for aloofness. He first indulges his passion by buying an island where he is "The Master" over his own microcosm of necessary attendants-a butler, a housekeeper, a carpenter, a mason. Wearying of these servants, who cheat him, quarrel among themselves, and pine for the peopled mainland, he retreats to a smaller island where he is served by one old couple and their daughter. Out of sheer indifference he allows himself to be seduced by the daughter, whom he marries because...
...Ashley Sparks, resident director of the Cunard Line, owns a home at Syosset, Long Island, where he keeps nine servants, four dogs, many a jewel. On May 13, $14,000 worth of jewels disappeared from the house. The servants were questioned; the house was searched; no clew was found. Last week, Sir Ashley's English valet was arrested on a tip from a Manhattan pawnbroker. He confessed to the police that he had stolen the jewels and hidden them in an old coat in his closet in Sir Ashley's house. The jewels were returned to their owner...
...Arctic is an authentic and thrilling record of the Snow expedition. They went up the west coast of Alaska, hunting whales and walruses, lassoing a 2,200-pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos. North of Alaska, on Herald Island, they found the remains of a tent, guns, cooking utensils and the bones of four men lying, side by side, on the frozen ground. The Snows, father and son, buried the bones, solemnly, and then raised a flag claiming Herald Island for the U. S. Explorer Stefansson commented...