Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Norman St. Clair Hales, actor of Freeport, L. I.; by falling through a Manhattan firehouse pole-hole on New Year's Eve. Firemen were in jeopardy; for receiving late visitors, for suspected revels...
...would know what to do when we got there." He was discussing his plan to man a saucer-shaped ship, sail it north of Bering Strait, let it freeze into the ice, then wait three or four years while the ship drifted with the ice floes over the North Pole and down into the Atlantic Ocean...
Services commemorating the 17th anniversary of Capt. Roald Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole, and his last sacrifice in efforts to aid members of the Nobile expedition into the Arctic, were held last fortnight at the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. They were sponsored by the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Said Bishop William Thomas Manning: "Amundsen's achievements were the triumph of mind and soul over matter . . . signs and proofs of our kinship with...
Eugene O'Neill, playwright, big-mystery-man of Shanghai, Honolulu, South Sea Islands, South Pole, Manila, Rapallo, Manhattan, Cape Cod and points north, east, south & west, has confessed and proven that he is none other than himself. It all happened this way. Playwright O'Neill has visited, been rumored to have visited, or said he was going to visit the above places. Actually, he left Shanghai, China, a fortnight ago, when snoops and gossips annoyed him (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week, he turned up in Manila, Philippine Islands, under the name of "The Rev. William O'Brien...
...correspondents who have been most decent carrying out their duties in a most gentlemanly manner. . . ." It was the people in hotels who annoyed Playwright O'Neill the most. He also hinted in his letter that his next destination was Honolulu or the South Sea Islands or the South Pole...