Word: river
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cooperation and shared work. Each night the boys helped to dig the latrine or cook the chow; everyone put up tents. The kids did most of the planning too-wrote for permission to use recreational facilities, estimated provisions, got clothes ready. On the trip, there were warm receptions in river towns by the mayor or a police escort-a welcome change from being rousted by police back home...
...Moreton's hunting friends from Cambridge reached southern Wyoming and spent six weeks shooting. By wintertime, when it was clearly too risky for any sensible man to cross the Big Horn range, the two Frewen brothers slogged through waist-high snow to the spot on the Powder River where they intended to become cattle barons...
Elephant Trap. Within three years, Frewen had married Clara Jerome, the daughter of a New York financier (her younger sister Jennie had recently married Lord Randolph Churchill). He had also regularized the shipment of champagne to the Powder River settlement, introduced white riding breeches and the English saddle to the region, made a friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, and become manager of a cattle empire capitalized at $1.5 million. In 1884, his sixth year in Wyoming, his Powder River company declared a dividend of 24%. The next year, however, a combination of bad weather, rustlers, homesteaders and an obtuse board...
...place to meet the maid is derived from the specific references in Lucy in the Sky. They are: "boats," "river," "flowers overhead," "a girl with sun in her eyes," "bridge," "fountain," "rocking horse people," "newspapers and taxis," "train," and "train station." The song itself is a description of meeting a girl. In London there is a footbridge with railroad tracks across the Thames which runs between Charing Cross and Waterloo stations called the Hungerford footbridge. On the Charing Cross side there is a dock. To one side are the Victoria Embankment Gardens, to the other the South Bank Gardens. These...
...final clue to the girl's location would be if there was a bank on that side of the river. This is derived from the title: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, which is anagrammatic for Lsd, which stands for pounds, shillings, and pence, which implies a bank. (We are indebted to Mr. Peter Stansky for this observation.) Unfortunately, my map of London does not show banks...