Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year channel down this historic stream, first traversed (1669) by Explorer La Salle, admired by Surveyor George Washington, developed by President James Monroe. Into its brown waters have been poured $150,000,000 to permit stumpy little tugs to haul 50 million tons of coal, iron, gravel and sand on steel barges back and forth each year...
Harrah Case. U. S. Citizen Charles J. Harrah built himself a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sand into Havana. In 1917 his tracks were torn up, apparently at the order of one Manuel de La Cruz, member of the Cuban congress. The prosecution quailed before the offender's position as a national legislator. Mr. Harrah valued his road at $700,000, sued also far loss of income. Both Mr. Harrah and the Cuban government have consented to arbitrate this case...
...Sand Lick, Ky., one Henry Harp worked on the roads. Lightning cracked, knocked Mr. Harp down, split his false teeth...
...realm of history and literature, the Amy Lowell collection of autographs is outstanding: letters from the correspondence of Madame de Stael, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Rousseau, Voltaire, Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Marie Antoinette to Necker, and, finally, a document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte...
...Cordoba billed another "Blackamon, the Living Corpse." The new Blackamon, who had been one of the original Living Corpse's assistants, omitted his former master's self perforations last week, but successfully went into his trance, was buried in his glass-fronted coffin. Three hours later the sand was shoveled away, spotlights focussed on the coffin...