Word: salts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Brown wrote, published, told salt yarns. My Ditty Bag-dedicated to his "loved and loyal wife who sailed for Australia with me a week after our marriage, and who has been a good shipmate during these many years"-has an exciting chapter "Fishy" ending with a quoted instruction for "landing" the biggest possible swordfish aboard a dory in the open ocean: "Fasten his tail over the gunwale to the afterthwart; put his sword over your shoulder; put your big finger in his eyeball; grab him with your other hand near his tail; when she rolls to leeward pull hard...
...Colorado and Oliver Henry Shoup, who was Governor before him (1919-23), swung sledges last week to drive a spike into a railroad tie under the Continental Divide west of Denver. The spike was a golden one and the two laborers made speeches. Mayor John F. Bowman of Salt Lake City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich western part of Colorado, southern...
...Dallas, Tex., rival of Houston, went Candidate Reed, rival of Smith. Frowning like a sulky Ulysses, he began a stumping tour with stumps at Tulsa, Kansas City, Denver (Feb. 23),* Albuquerque (Feb. 24), Phoenix (Feb. 26), Los Angeles (Feb. 27), San Francisco (March i), Reno (March 3), perhaps Salt Lake City, perhaps Omaha...
Undergraduate criticism of literature, especially modern literature, is usually to be taken with several grains of appraising salt. Hosannas for Hemingway and disproportionate praise and condemnation is the result in the majority of cases where some young Harry Hansen or Isabel Patterson takes stook of the latest books. This, however, is a less cardinal crime than any other tendency...
Cincinnati, January 17-19. Louisville, January 19-21. St. Louis, January 23-24. Kansas City, January 25-26. Denver, January 28-30. Salt Lake City, January 31-February 1. Los Angeles, San Diego and Pasadena, February 2-6. Santa Barbara and Ojai, February 7-9. San Francisco, February 10-11. Honolulu, February 15-24. Seattle, March 5-6. Portland, Ore., March 7-8. Spokane, March 9-10. Minne apolis and St. Paul. March 12-14. Mil waukee, March...