Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...king of three little islands and dozens of little islets out in a tropic sea, where one's word is law and where the palm leaves wiggle in approbation,-such is the destiny of Captain Waldo Evans, U. S. N. retired, onetime commandant of the Great Lakes (Ill.) Naval Training Station, onetime Governor of Samoa, who was last week appointed by President Coolidge to be "king" of the Virgin Islands. His official title is Governor, but he is the sole military, civil and judicial head of the islands and is responsible to no one except the President. Few would...
...last hotheads stormed the barricaded International Settlement, but in such small numbers that the international police quelled them with a little jostling. The first wavelet had broken harmlessly, but all the sea of China welled behind...
...shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water, in a distant Bronx apartment, in fact, lives David Farjeon, 10. Last week the Manhattan music world waited, more or less anxious, to hear a musical setting he had composed for Poet Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Ethel Hayden, soprano, was scheduled to sing it at Carnegie Hall...
...short novel. Sherwood Anderson received second prize ($250) for 'Death in the Woods.' And to me they offered third prize ($100) for 'Between Worlds.' I refused to give permission for the reprinting of my story. The committee then fell back on 'Command,' a piece published last April in Sea Stories (monthly) by one Richard Wetjen...
Laboratory Theatre. East 58th St.--The acting company of the group gives its best performance in this gay comedy of Shakespeare, but the performances of "The Sea Woman's Cloak" and "The Scarlet Letter" are also worthy of high praise. The acting, as a whole, is the nearest thing to Moscow Art--which means theatre art--that we have in this country. (With the possible exception of the Neighborhood Playhouse...