Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before dawn the next morning the Hoover car was cut off at Long Key, a barren palm-studded island 80 miles south of Miami. The President and friends detrained, walked a sandy way to the wharf where lay in spick & span readiness the white seagoing houseboat Saunterer. Its owner, Manhattan Capitalist Jeremiah Milbank, eastern G. O. P. Treasurer during the 1928 campaign, greeted the President, turned the boat over to him, got off. The President's ensign, a blue flag with four white stars around the seal of the U. S., was .broken out, cameras clanked and clicked, President Hoover...
...sleep on the Saunterer, to spend his days fishing for sailfish, kingfish, barracuda, perhaps tarpon, from small speedboats. His only contact with the shore would be a courier in a launch. Newsmen, left behind as they always are when the President plays, settled down at Long Key to amuse themselves the best they could, to welcome whatever scraps of information were daily brought in by the courier from the Saunterer...
...Covenant designed to "close the gap" which at present permits of war as a means of settlement of some disputes. Several amendments would be necessary to embody the new principle completely, and these will all be drafted and circulated; but one of these will be selected as the key one for debating the principle. After the amendment has been debated, a vote will be taken...
...suggestion that the gaunt soldier whom a scrubwoman pretends is her son and takes pride in as a hero, was really an unpatriotic realist who planned to desert his regiment as soon as he got to London on leave. It is just enough of a change to key the story up to cinema requirements without destroying any of its tenderness. Because she felt embarrassed when other scrub- women boasted of their fighting sons, old Mrs. Dowey (Beryl Mercer) picked out a Black Watch private (Gary Cooper) who happened to have her own name. She told people she was his mother...
...Key West, Fla., one Mitchell Mc-Larin, inmate of a poor farm, bid $110,000 for ferry property put up for sale...