Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brig. Gen. John Henry Russell, U. S. High Commissioner to Haiti, arrived on the Ancon, pointed to press reports of a Brooklyn gang murder, had this to say of the land of King Christophe: "You can go anywhere in Haiti and be safe, and that is more than you can do in some countries...
Something about a Barbe Bleu fires the emotions of Frenchmen. Men marry women and kill them for their wealth in every land; but in France a Barbe Bleu is news. Last week was bluebeard week at Marseilles, the chief and most casually immoral port city of France, and a famed stockade for transient White Slavers...
...symbol of France is a spunky, militant, land-lubbing Cock; but for one day last week Frenchmen raised the three-spiked Trident of sea power. For once the name of "Admiral of the Fleet"*Henri Salaun loomed on a momentary par with that of Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The occasion was twofold: first a review of the Grand Fleet, off Havre, and second the inauguration, at Havre, of the new docks and deep water basin-a prodigious puddle capable of accommodating simultaneously the two largest ships in the world, the Majestic and Leviathan...
...black-painted sailing schooner Atlantis is now on the high seas headed toward this buried land. At the helm is Columbus O'Donnell Iselin 2nd, 24-year-old oceanographer, Harvard graduate and romanticist, son of the late Lewis Iselin. Last year, in his 76-foot fishing schooner The Chance, he dredged, collected specimens along the Labrador coast, as he had previously done along the Gulf Stream, Bermudas, Atlantic Coast...
...management of his real estate properties is not sufficiently arduous to prevent his spending days and weeks contemplating the sea from one of the three decks of the "Light of My Soul." It might indeed be impossible for the perfect yachtsman to be a mentally aggressive fur-trader and land-getter, as was Commodore Astor's famed great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor...