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...Knight that she was "P'incess Lilybet" no longer but "big Sister Betty." Shouting with excitement Big Sister Betty demanded to see the new baby instanter "cause grandaddy's the King." She announced later that she preferred it to all her other pets; her chow dog, her canary, her Shetland pony Jessie, present from Grandaddy George...
...sight of land to Cape Walsingham on Baffin Island, jump across Davis Strait to Mt. Evans, Greenland. From Mt. Evans they would cross the Greenland ice cap to Angmagsalik and then over water to Reykjavik, Iceland. From Iceland they would try for Bergen, Norway, stopping at the Faroe or Shetland islands if necessary, and from Bergen to Copenhagen to Berlin. Then they would fly back over the same route to Chicago...
Accepting his election with reciprocal gravity, King Mihai at once ordered the club to organize Shetland pony races this season in which His Majesty's own shaggy-legged favorite, Black Beauty, could be entered...
...best studied of ocean currents, however, loses comparatively little of its heat at Newfoundland. It drifts eastward to help warm all of Europe, including of course England.* Europe is warmer than North America. Off Europe the Gulf Stream Drift splits into three streams. One goes between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands north of Scotland, another along west Iceland, the third along the western side of Greenland...
...Pullmans, telephones, tiny model locomotives, travel-folders, telegraph instruments, types of primitive wooden rails, all of curious and obscure design. Also, they have noted the present day offshoots of all of these. On sidings, huge stallion locomotives from far-away railroads have backed and champed; preposterously outmoded engines, like Shetland ponies, have pawed and whinnied. There were many Indians at the fair, members of the Blood and Piegan tribes of the Blackfeet nation.- In the pageant they had run in frightful fashion past the grandstands. . . . The enthusiasm of spectators was shared by sober critics. Said the New York Evening Post...