Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tattered bandits sneaked down across the Pis-Pis river and with a whoop fell upon the Laluz gold mine. The time: last April. The place: northeastern Nicaragua...
...special lesson will give the fundamentals of steering, including how to bring a shell to a float without shelling the float, how to take four crews abreast around the sinuous curves of the Charles River, and how to achieve the crowning glory of taking a shell through the right hand arch of the Larz Anderson Bridge, on the way upstream, without running it on shore...
...Peribonka, French-Canadian village in the forest-river country of northern Quebec, Maria and Samuel Chapdelaine (of whose happiness Louis Hemon wrote) still keep their little store and dining room. But no longer are they the happiest people of that Peribonka valley. Happier is the Crippled Lady. She sits each day on her veranda serenely waiting for her man Paul's daily messages, for his week-end visits. He is now clearing the forest with 15 men. Nearby is the Mistassini dam, which he had built with...
...father's financial partner. Claire felt the marriage without love, and she lugged away from Paul. It was while he was building the dam in loneliness that he saw Carla, strapping, kindly village teacher. Paul wrote Claire extolling Carla, which brought Claire post-haste to the forest-river country. There was an amiable picnic on the bank of the swift-flowing Mistassini. Paul fell in. "And then, on the cliff, one woman said to another: 'Are you going with him?' The woman spoken to gazed wide-eyed-motionless- voiceless-and after a moment of tense waiting...
...Hagar did "worry heself dat much," slid leaden into the river. Painstakingly her wizened old mother Mamba had trained her to sacrifice everything for her daughter Lissa. And now Hagar had strangled the "woman-chaser," Gilly, strangled him before he could do her Lissa hahm." Mamba was furious, feared the scandal might ruin Lissa's career as a lady and as a singer. Quick in emergency, she packed Lissa off to a friendly parson in "Noo Yo'k;" and ordered Hagar to keep her mout' shet if caught and questioned about the murder. But Hagar knew the prying prosecutor would...