Word: mariposa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his volume Sunshine Sketches, Leacock dealt with the small-town doings of his home in Ontario. His yarn of the sinking of the Mariposa Belle with a picnic crowd aboard has the same essence of humour as the real affair did last week. The Mariposa Belle starts to sink and finally rests on the bottom of the lake, with the gunwales still above water and all passengers high and dry. The lifeboat, however, which...
...issue of TIME in which you give Pan American's new air fares San Francisco to Honolulu and San Francisco to Hong Kong, you say "comparative boat fares $215, $425." The minimum first class fares on the Matson Line from San Francisco to Honolulu on the Lurline, Mariposa, and Monterey (in a twin-bedded, inside, double room with private toilet) is $125. Matsonia fares are the same but minimum accommodations have no private toilet...
After about an hour, the captains of both ships decided that they were leaking not too badly, limped into Victoria. Thence the Lyons sailed to Seattle where they boarded a special train for San Francisco to catch the fast Matson Liner Mariposa for Australia. Said genial Premier Lyons to Seattle reporters, "I wish you could meet my wife, but she's asleep. She was rather knocked out, you know, by the steamer collision. She'd been up early in the morning to see the scenery, hoping to have a good sleep that night, and that...
...Douglas, on its last flight, successfully made contact with the Matson liner Mariposa 400 mi. at sea, flew back to Oakland. Promptly Major Snow telegraphed his resignation to Washington. Director Vidal accepted it without comment...
...under suspicion of being a Jugoslav spy.) Author Baerlein says of himself: "Henry Baerlein has this resemblance to a happy country in tint he is rather devoid of history. . . ." Other hooks: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March of the 70,000, Mariposa, Dreamy Rivers (TIME...