Word: santas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lifeboat on a yacht belonging to Novelist Zane Grey. They put masts on it and called it a yawl, the Grey Ghost. Fishermen Eli Kelly and James McKinley sailed it out in December and were crippled by a storm. Before the Grey Ghost drifted ashore on Santa Catalina Island, Fishermen McKinley was dead and Fisherman Kelly was, by agreement, a cannibal, still alive but half-crazed (TIME, Jan. 3, 10). Fisherman George McShallis of San Pedro, Calif., salvaged the Grey Ghost and sailed to San Clemente to ply his trade...
Commander de Pinedo's itinerary directed him north from Rio de Janiero to Jamaica, Cuba, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, New York. His was a "four-continent" flight, planned to give "new proof of virile national power." He flew with two comrades. His seaplane, the Santa Maria, was built at Milan, with two 550-h.p. Isotta-Fraschini motors...
Guzzling orange juice, milk and broth, munching chocolate, losing 17 pounds, Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam from Santa Catalina Island to the California mainland last week in 22 hours, 45 minutes. He had previously failed to finish in William Wrigley Jr.'s $25,000 nautical derby over the same course which 17-year-old George Young of Toronto completed in 15 hr. 44 min. (TIME...
...merry ditty on the hunt introduces us to the Hall of Fame, which is unfortunate in itself because the lead is not characteristic, and the rhyme scheme, borrowed from the "Night Before Christmas" (we suppose with apologies to Santa Claus) lacks ingenuity. This is the first vision in Lampy's nightmare. We turn the page and the inconsistency staggers us. Herman's wife, William Tell, Cyrano de Bergerac and something indelicate about women undressing in newspaper headlines, poke the spectator feebly in the ribs but no responsive laugh comes forth, because there is no sense of reality...
...Some one has said they were there to protect the American Continent from the spread of Bolshevism. Only those simple-minded souls who still believe in a Santa Glaus can be fooled by such hypocrisy...