Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fought for the U. S. in the World War as First Lieutenant of Field Artillery. At the opening of the Spanish-American War, his uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, was Assistant Secretary of the Navy; he soon found the job too tame and resigned to lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill. Another Roosevelt, Franklin D., held the Navy post from 1913 to 1920; Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Assistant Secretary Robinson's cousin, next held the job (1921-1924, resigned). In Nahant, Mass., in November, 1924, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge on his deathbed heard of T. R. Jr.'s resignation...
...from nowhere out into the desert after the Hortons and young Traynor. Stumbling mules wrenched along in makeshift harness. Automobiles of every make, rusty and knocking, shiny and squeaky, dodged and swerved along the crowded track. Derby hats, caps, fedoras and sombreros rolled by. Slick city men talked loudly. Rough desert men looked grim. The Bad Lands that the Indians call Malapai woke up as they had not awakened since Jim Butler's mule kicked open the silver vein that made Tonopah in 1900. They rattled and rumbled for 40 miles, to Weepah, a treeless place on the "bench...
...gallant Major explained that a faulty oil pipe had caused his descent, in a rough sea, near the mouth of the Fatma River. Waves quickly smashed the plane. It was a hard mile swim to shore. Soon Moorish tribesmen swarmed over the wrecked plane, dug into the batteries for gold and silver, got nothing but a bad electric shock. From the aviators they took money and watches, cut the soles of their shoes for concealed gold. Later they marched the Major and his companions barefooted over the hot sands for many hours, hid them, in sacks on camels' backs while...
...rise from the bottom. He broke in at the middle and puffed out the chest of the Indiana oilcan. Babbitts could not understand how he did it. He had played football at Coe College (Iowa), plunged into the law at Yale, cavorted with Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, dabbled in politics in South Dakota. But he was and is a shrewd lawyer. The Standard Oil wanted him. Soon the general counsel was made chairman of the board (1918).* He summoned lethargic directors to thrice-weekly meetings, made them agree unanimously on every decision. Under the Stewart impetus the company...
Because of the rough water, which became increasingly so in the latter part of the afternoon, only the first two or three crews out went very far upstream. The later crews were taken downstream and the last crews to appear rowed on the tank instead of taking our shells. Some of the crews encountered groups of floating ice cakes which had to be carefully approached and circumnavigated...