Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howard Johnson, U. S. N., chief petty officer on the yacht Mayflower, is this summer a member of the President's retinue at Cedar Island Lodge. His especial duty has been the operation of a motion picture camera. But last week, as he walked along Brule River with President Coolidge, a new duty came to him. The President pointed to a flotilla of canoes, said: "You are the only Navy man in my party. I'll make you admiral of the fleet." Soon Officer Johnson was seen scrubbing the President's favorite fishing canoe...
Twelve swart women wrapped in garish blankets squatted around a picnic ground on the bank of the Arkansas River near Kaw, Okla. Five old men the color of tanbark squatted in the middle of the clearing, balancing a broad tom-tom on their crossed feet...
After boasting that the unfavorable Irish trade balance is steadily declining, and that Irish mercantile business is on the boom, President Cosgrave dwelt upon the present hydro-electric development of the River Shannon, chiefly famed as a theme for lachrymal Irish sentiment...
...this, the male member of team No. 7 rushed at Milton D. Crandall, crying with rage and threatening him with fists. He had been insulted, he cried, and would go across the river. The crowd cheered him on, an angry knot of persons gathered on the dance floor, a call for police reserves was issued, while Mr. Crandall, dodging away from the enraged dancer, was booed, hissed and subjected to fruit-throwing. Five minutes later, it was announced that an injunction had been secured which would permit the marathon to continue 22 hours longer. Couple No. 7, despite their unruly...
NEVADA-Zane Grey-Harpers ($2.00). Jim Lacy, wild hombre alias "Nevada," chased wild horses through an earlier volume, Forlorn River, sacrificed love and happiness for his "pard," and disappeared. The present story follows him to the wicked mining town where he had made his name notorious for gambling and drinking. To the surprise of gamblers and dancing girls, Jim now avoided trouble and laughed off insults. He did not explain that Hettie Ide, spirited California beauty, had since come into his life...