Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current attraction at the Metropolitan, "The River Pirate" is--a good picture. But it is not so good a picture as it ought to be; it is a bit like an unlighted cigar--all best Havana, but lacks the spark...
...think I have ever seen or heard before of the women you call 'Clara Bow' and 'Lillian Gish.' ... I myself turned the crank when my brother and I took our first motion picture. It was of Auguste sculling our rowboat across the River Rhone...
Skeptics gaped at reports that in the fructiferous Milk River Valley of Alberta several persons bought farms, last autumn, which they have now paid for out of the proceeds of one summer's crops. Farmer S. I. Harris, shrewd, bought a Milk River quarter section for $15 per acre, raised 10,000 bushels of wheat, and with the proceeds more than paid for his land. Farmers Loft & Pederson slightly bettered even this phenomenal procedure, but other Milk Riverites were perceptibly less fortunate...
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late famed hunter-President, sailed from Manhattan on the Homeric, with animals in mind. They plan to penetrate the unexplored lands along the Mekong River in Tibet, where, among other things, they will seek to capture a takin, rare ruminant, something like an antelope and something like a goat...
...from last year's championship class crew also were out regularly. The rest of the squad was composed of other class and dormitory crew men. For the first time in several years, there were almost enough upper-class coxswains for the number of crews on the river...