Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nightmare at this time last year to the millions who live in its lower basin, the Mississippi River is a nightmare to President Coolidge now. Last week, alarmed by reports that the Flood Control bill, which the Senate shoved through last fortnight, might cost the U. S. a billion or $1,500,000,000, the President sent for Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, his Flood Control spokesman. Mr. Madden was sick abed but up he got and to the White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President...
Senator Hale and Representative Hersey of Maine, to tender a 15-lb. salmon, "first-of-the-season" from the Penobscot River...
...culturally has been a family without a hearthstone. . . ." These were the words of onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper; the hearthstone to which he referred was the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, at whose dedication he was making a speech. The new museum stands above the Schuylkill River, on a spot once tenanted by factories and tenements; here it had been envisaged 20 years ago by John E. Reyburn, then mayor of Philadelphia. Ten of its galleries had been completed at a total cost of about $10,000,000, and these, together with ten "period" rooms carefully removed...
...river that slides down through a quiet country where the hills are piled up like velvet pillows, past the quick glittering chaos of Manhattan, into the quiet Atlantic. Up this river the Captain sailed, hoping to find the splendor of China and a western ocean beyond some twist of a valley in those small and comfortable mountains...
...ship before a long voyage, are carefully inserted by Author Powys. He tells how an Indian visited the Half-Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead as he was paddling across the silent river valley, back to shore. The sea, the polar bears, the casual, surly, craven sailors of Hudson's crew, the companies who in England planned the hazardous voyages that their captains undertook, the acquittal which an English court allowed the mutineers who had marooned their captain,-none of these things...