Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose wiry wickedness David Belasco has always turned to virtue just before the final curtain, has undergone a metamorphosis. Both her personality and appearance seem altered. She is still a good actress but Kiki no more. The play, many will remember, is No. 9,824 in the Canadian Royal Northwest Mounted Police stories. They always get their audience...
...Avenue there will be a special entrance through the wire fence directly into Soldiers Field. Persons parking cars on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton may enter either through the pedestrian gate at the southwest corner of Soldiers Field or through the gate opposite the Newell Boat House on the northwest side of the field...
Mr.H. Glynn-Ward, in the Literary Digest's International book Review, has put Canada's ease. Canada is, not a land of eternal snows inhabited solely by vicious French Canadians, officers of the Royal Northwest Mounted always in summer costume, and decrepit log cabins, Transportation, He asserts, is provided for a large number of automobiles and a network of very fair railroads. Eskinio dog teams, while still employed in the outlying, districts, are no longer the only means of communication between Toronto and Montreal. And it does not snow all year round...
...miles from Greenland, and later the station of the Calgary (Alberta) Herald, caught faint and fragmentary messages in Morse, reporting the Bowdoin frozen solid in the ice floes of Smith Sound, at about 79° latitude, some 706 miles from the Pole. This is the strait separating northwest Greenland from the large group of islands called Ellesmere Land. Captain MacMillan is not seeking to reach the Pole but will stay in the Arctic zone two years for scientific observations. Winter is now upon the expedition, with its several months of continuous darkness...
...Politics. The appointment of Mr. Kellogg, it is said, will net the Republican regulars nothing; it will alienate the radicals of the Northwest. Senator Frazier, Republican insurgent from North Dakota, and Senator Wheeler, Democratic " Progressive " from Montana, both exclaimed: "The appointment shows the President is not a Progressive "and promised to vote against Mr. Kellogg's confirmation as Ambassador by the Senate. Gordell Hull, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, delivered his usual caustic comment: " I wonder what Newberry will be appointed to." Otherwise comment was more of surprise than of disapprobation...