Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monte Blue, cinemactor, "on location" at Laguna Beach, Calif., toppled off a raft broke three ribs...
...Tournament. The seventh contest, held last week, was cut to the conventional pattern. Twenty amateur organizations competed, each presenting a one-act play. One group from Denver gave a horrific vignette by Eugene O'Neill in which a white couple and a Negro are shown adrift on a raft in tropic seas. Another Denver company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane, sent her out to follow the fancied ghost of a long-dead lover. Actors from Dayton, Ohio, were concerned with Zanzibar. Three Manhattan companies...
...flood freak had occurred. The 300 inmates of an insane asylum escaped. ... A large house with all lights lit floated by at the first flood midnight.*... A crippled farmer nearly starved in his garret. . . . Hearing that Bolton, downstream village, needed food, a Waterbury undertaker furnished coffins to float a raft, which reached Bolton. . . . A rendering (glue, etc.) factory in the Winooski Valley was offered 3,000 carcasses of drowned dairy cows. . . . Excavators were imperiled by a store of dynamite that floated out of a construction camp and lay scattered none knew where under the silt. . . . Wet hay combusted spontaneously...
...with the Secretary's brother, Richard B. Mellon, in another Mellon mansion. Then President Coolidge drove through the streets to visit, among other places, the Fort Pitt blockhouse and the Washington Cross-his Chief of Staff (see p. 10). a time when George Washington was swept off a raft in the icy Allegheny and almost drowned...
...foggy night, rainy, winds were high. Though the ships reached the vicinity within a few hours after the cry for help, the nervous fingers of their groping searchlights could not touch the spot where three men may have floated in a soggy plane, or on a little rubber raft...