Word: mawson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighteen-year-old Chauffeur Stoner, a consumer of cocaine sandwiches, egged on by his neurotic 38-year-old mistress, Mrs. Francis Mawson Rattenbury, murdered her 67-year-old husband whom she had always called by the pet name "Rats." So harshly did English public opinion crack down on Mistress Rattenbury that she soon committed suicide while 300,000 English signatures piled up on a mercy petition for young Stooge Stoner who had been sentenced to hang. An appeal by Stoner's lawyers was dismissed by the Lord Chief Justice as "a mere waste of time." The Lords of Appeal...
...Antarctica. A tourist trip to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America last Antarctic summer was abandoned, may occur next December. Last season Consul Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling tycoon, steamed completely around the Antarctic Continent, looking out for whale feeding grounds and spotting a few landmarks. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian, spotted a few more. Africa- On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to "His Excellency the Governor of the Cape" a report on trade and slavery. The old letter was found this Spring. It reads in part: "Marianno...
...extensive airplane explorations. All he could do was make three brief flights this year, and those from a ship. He had hoped that he could fly from his base at Deception Island to visit Admiral Byrd at Little America. On the far side of the continent, Sir Douglas Mawson's men were able to make only a brief flight from their ship, the Discovery. In the same general neighborhood the Norwegian whale-spotters, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Lützow Holm, did not fly far from the Norvegia...
...ship and airplane routes of the four parties who have worked around the continent the past two winters: 1) Byrd Antarctic Expedition at the Ross Sea; 2) Wilkins-Hearst Expedition (Sir George Hubert Wilkins) at the Weddell Sea; 3) British- Australian-New Zealand and Antarctic Expedition (Sir Douglas Mawson's) at the Indian Ocean side; 4) Norwegian Whalers (Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen's and Lutzow Holm...
...Indian Ocean side of the continent Sir Douglas Mawson and the Norwegians were studying the seas for whale and other marine life, and trying to pre-empt some of the shores for their countries. Both made nominal claim to short sectors...