Word: sled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nobel Peace Award in 1922, and repeatedly Norwegian Delegate to the League of Nations, landed from the Aquitania last week, to lecture before the National Geographical Society and then return within a fortnight to Norway. Growled he: "The most valuable vehicle for scientific polar exploration is still the dog sled. Airplanes and dirigibles fly too swiftly...
Those hardy souls who, if a loftier goal than mere enjoyment did not detain them in Cambridge, would be enjoying the sled runs of Chamonix the toboggan slides of Quebec or even the ski jump at Hanover, can now find a slightly milder joy on the river. From the Lars Anderson Bridge up to Watertown the ice is frozen, and one may choose whether he will frequent the brightly-lighted, windswept expanse near Newell, or go adventuring among the dark coves beyond the infirmary...
Down the frozen grand allee at Quebec a team of seven excited dogs romped. They were harnessed to a sled. Behind the sled trotted young Emil St. Goddard, smiling. It was the finish of the eastern international dog sled derby and St. Goddard had defeated his archrival, Leonhard Seppala, by the comfortable margin of 20 minutes, set a new record for the event (120 miles, 40 miles per day, elapsed time, 11 hr., 37 min., 35 sec.), won a cash prize of $1,000. Enthusiastic thousands noted that dogs with long legs had come in first. Conservative Seppala had relied...
...stature but impeccably sleek, the Earl of Birkenhead vacationed last week at Funchal, balmy and (in winter) fashionable port-city of Madeira. Careless of his dignity as Secretary of State for India and a onetime (1919-22) Lord Chancellor, the Earl rode about by day in a canopied sled drawn by bullocks-the peculiar means of transport on this Portuguese isle. At eve, Lord Birkenhead dined, naturally at one of the great hotels-the same in which George Bernard Shaw stopped when he visited Madeira, two winters ago. There the dancing master who taught Mr. Shaw to tango...
...barbarian collection has 21 fur deals curiously decorated and constructed as one of the features of his display; Arctic whips, boots, sled fixtures, and crude musical instruments add interest to this exhibit...