Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (Bing Crosby; Decca). With the Paul Taylor Choristers, Mr. Crosby looks over "Jerdon." Heady vocalizing, unequaled since his Swanee River...
Observers guessed that the naval drive up the river would remain feeble simply because the Army was loath to support it. Japanese Army commanders have no desire to shift their operations from the rail lines, roadways and comparatively solid soil of north central China to the rail-less, roadless, boggy footpath country of the upper Yangtze Valley just to aid the Navy to a victory. More likely the Army will settle down in its present position, hold its drive on Hankow until the floodwaters seep into the ground...
...neutral powers since the armistice have brought the dispute no nearer settlement. Fortnight ago the Chaco Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, composed of representatives of the U. S., Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay, offered a solution which would have given landlocked Bolivia a port on the Paraguay river, and thus an outlet to the sea, Bolivia's main interest in having a slice of the Chaco. Paraguay flatly rejected it. "The Bolivian flag cannot fly over a port on the river bearing the name Paraguay," groused Paraguay's 75-year-old Foreign Minister Dr. Cecilio Baez...
...hippopotamus, which looks like its sesquipedalian name, is actually so called because a Greek traveler thought it resembled a "horse of the river." Like horses, most hippos are kind and gentle, though a few are extremely cruel at times. Ordinarily docile is Rosie, 15-year-old, 3,000-lb. female hippo in Manhattan's Central Park Zoo, who last week gave birth for the first time. Despite zookeepers' precautions, Rosie butted her newly-born unmercifully, refused it food. The baby hippo, a 52-lb. male, was moved to a separate cage, fed goat's milk and cream...
...superstructure melting into as slick an air-flow contour as any Hollywood futurist ever conceived, the 112-foot triple-screw yacht Q. E. D. poised one afternoon last week ready to glide down her skids for a maiden wetting in the ebbing waters of Manhattan's malodorous Harlem River. Beneath the concave bows of this fuselage-shaped ship stood her owner and chief designer, round, rubicund Hollander Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, an old hand at aircrafting, a brand-new hand at shipbuilding...