Word: laking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Heber Manning Wells, 78, first Governor of Utah (1895-1904); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Salt Lake City. Ex-Governor Wells, son of a Mormon patriarch, helped draft Utah's State constitution, helped achieve Utah's Statehood, which had been delayed because of polygamy...
Princeton oarsmen began their out-door work on Lake Carnegie as early as February 15. Coach Fred Sphun, entering up on his first season as Gordon Sikes's successor, sent the Tiger oarsmen off to the their earliest outdoor practice in the twenty-seven year-history of intercollegiate rowing at Princeton. Seventy-two men under the leadership of Captain Phil Le Boutillier took to the water with the temperature hovering below the freezing mark...
...damage was the Santa Ana River, a gravel-filled gulley which usually dribbles placidly through the Santa Ana Mountains, 35 miles southeast of the city, across 20 miles of farming country to the sea just south of Long Beach. Last week the Santa Ana burst a dam at Fairmont Lake, roared five feet deep through the streets of Riverside. On the flatland it became a muddy torrent whose waters spread out ten miles wide, turning orchards, farms and villages into a churning sea in which 15 people drowned...
...ornate gates of the Villa Vittoriale on the western slopes of Lake Garda one day last week rumbled a gun carriage bearing the body of Italy's poet, prince, lover, soldier and No. 1 eccentric, 74-year-old Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Monte Nevoso, who had died two days before. Beside the carriage walked Premier Mussolini and the poet's estranged wife, the Duchesse of Gallese. Up the tortuous, winding road to Gardone di Sopra wound the procession, through lanes of mourners standing with upraised arms. In the little Church of San Nicolao the village priest...
Peace. So many European beauties of all ages now clamored for his attention that D'Annunzio contrived a semi-monastic villa on Lake Garda where for years things have been made exciting but not too easy for his guests, male or female. The guestroom drawers brimmed with the finest silken lingerie in Europe, but the Genius, who was now well beyond three score, would often simply talk romantically all night...