Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fancy figment but a real live companion-secretary, Alice B. Toklas is a Californian (her father was a Pole) who has lived with Gertrude Stein for the last 26 years. Authoress Stein says she often urged Companion Toklas to write her autobiography, finally decided to do it for her. In the book's final sentences Gertrude Stein drops the thin disguise, says to Companion Toklas: "I am going to write it as simply as Defoe did the autobiography of Robinson Crusoe. And she has and this is it." In Robinson Crusoe Defoe does not appear, but in Alice...
Five years ago Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, went to the rescue of the wrecked airship Italia commanded by General Umberto Nobile, whom he cordially disliked. A French navy seaplane bearing Amundsen and five companions started from Tromso, Norway, towards Spitsbergen. It was never seen again...
...need of having an observatory in the southern hemisphere if they wished to study the entire heavens became apparent. The one in Cambridge could only photograph the region of the sky in what in called the North Colestial Pole, so a station was established in Arequipa, Peru, for photographic work on the southern skies...
...Chicago police rounded up Roger Touhy and three members of the "Terrible Touhy" gang as suspects in the kidnapping of John Factor. The gang had been arrested at Elkhorn, Wis. for smashing into a telephone pole. Having paid a $22 fine they were about to drive on when a policeman found in their car seven pistols, a rifle, a golf bag full of ammunition, a roll of adhesive tape and 20 ft. of gauze-regular kidnapping equipment. One gangster explained: "We were up here fishing. We got one 17-lb. muskie. The guns? Why, we had those to shoot...
Scouts. Col. Lindbergh, technical adviser to Pan American, had the job of inspecting prospective landing places, charting the upper air, studying the effects of the Magnetic Pole and Northern Lights on his plane's radio and direction-finder. In the latter chore-radio testing-he had the valuable help of his wife who has a "better sending fist" than Lindbergh himself. She holds a radio operator's license, can transmit 20 words per minute...