Word: mackinaws
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...HOLY OLD MACKINAW-Stewart H. Holbrook-Macmillan...
...beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will-o'-the-wisp short cut to the Orient; Parliament had a standing reward of ?20,000 to the lucky discoverer. By personality and pull Rogers got the post of Governor of Michilimackinac (now Mackinaw, Mich.), went off to his new adventure in high feather, taking Langdon along to paint his fill of Indians. Still-beauteous Elizabeth went too, but Langdon found his heart was now proof against her. Besides, he had a ward, Ann, a little-girl Galatea from the London slums...
Louis Alexandre Taschereau, 70, for 16 years Premier of Quebec, ousted last year (TIME, June 22). narrowly escaped drowning when his boat tipped over during a fishing trip in Northern Quebec. Clinging to his upsidedown craft until he had removed his mackinaw and high boots, he swam ashore...
...tendency to regard as artistically courageous any film in which the heroine breaks her neck. Also, since Anna Sten has been introduced to the U. S. public as a glamorous composite of Greta Garbo and Mae West, a picture in which her physical charms are concealed by a mackinaw and a woolen stocking-cap obviously constitutes a daring innovation. The merits of The Wedding Night are more substantial than criticisms which dwell on these superficial factors may lead cinemaddicts to suppose. A sober, admirably realistic investigation of the futility of the back-to-the-soil movement among Manhattan...
...springs never let it freeze, before you are in the park proper. You bed down that night in the Government log lodge at Yellowstone Lake, fifth highest in the world. This year the guides are taking parties of four over to Shoshone Lake for a chance at the big Mackinaw trout. Molly Island, in the southeastern arm of Yellowstone Lake, is alive with pelicans. Next day, when you look into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, there will be ospreys which you will probably mistake for eagles. Eagles are banned from the park because they kill so much small game...