Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite every effort on the part of the Harvard authorities, the state police of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, no trace has been found of Neff since he boarded a New London bound trolley at Stonington, Conn., Monday night. Those who are not acquainted with the missing Senior, are asked to keep a sharp lookout for any person resembling him or acting in a conspicuous manner. Neff's description follows: Age 21. Height 5 ft. 10 in. Weight 165. Medium brown hair, out short. Bluish-grey eyes. Believed to be wearing a single-breasted suit of dark brown or grayish...
...crow of the fighting cock is Porto Rico's national anthem, sung from early dawn to murmurous dusk by spur-legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned...
...Chrysler always looks a trifle amazed. He has a home on Long Island -at Great Neck. He owns and uses a yacht and several speed boats. His oriental rugs make one of the best collections in the U. S. When he wants something he gets it without ado. So he has a pipe organ at home. To save himself reading labor, he has a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports...
Where wealth is spent with decorous gorgeousness, there the Edward F. Huttons are-in Manhattan on Long Island, in the Adirondacks, at Palm Beach. The Palm Beach estate is so magnificent that the Huttons use wiles to keep intruders out. A sentry guards the gate. Once a brazen rich woman whom Mrs. Hutton refused to receive applied for a maid's job in the mansion. As inept as indelicate, she was quickly discovered. A private tunnel runs from the Hutton grounds to the famed Bath and Tennis Club of Palm Beach. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hutton like to entertain...
Many persons supposed that little Mr. Hays, when sleeping in his apartment during the early morning hours, would occupy a higher position than any other person on the island of Manhattan. Not so. This honor belongs to Oilman Frank E. Kistler of Denver, Col., who sometimes dozes on the 38th airy floor of the new and exclusive 560-ft., 38-story-high Sherry Netherland. The third highest Manhattan residence belongs to Poloist Foxhall Keene who lives on the 36th luxurious floor of the Ritz Towers...