Word: steamboats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superseded simplicity. That done, he reverts to the thrilling intensity of Java Head, and recounts in a series of story-sketches the drama within quiet cities. In Albany Angenietje defies the customs of a stodgy Dutch community by marrying a British ensign who had survived Ticonderoga. At Natchez a steamboat card sharp turned respectable, acquired a Southern gentleman's plantation, only to lose it through the backbiting of a jealous mulatto woman...
...Steamboat Bill Jr. Buster Keaton is a thimble-witted college boy. His father (Ernest Torrence) tries to make him a skipper on a muddy river. They reach a climax in a cyclone. Distinctly not funny...
...editorial mentioned by the Senator's secretary praised Senator Stephens for talking little; quoted Mark Twain's steamboat which could not whistle and paddle at the same time; mentioned that Demosthenes, Patrick Henry and Ingersoll had no fame as fighters. The editorial concluded...
...power that Mayor Thompson now holds over Mr. Lowden is proportionate to the power of the Mississippi Flood over the farmlands of its basin, plus the power of many a steamboat. Mayor Thompson literally took the Mississippi Flood at its crest. He was cruising downstream with brass bands to popularize the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway when the rains descended. He changed his commercial cruise into an "errand of mercy," swung Chicago and himself into leadership of the flood-control movement, by no means neglecting to keep the Lakes-to-Gulf project stoked up and steaming along behind...
...Lehigh University. Said he: "Inventors in this country have always been popular idols. We tell young school children about the inventions of Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison. We have been blessed by a number of men who had the spark of genius to conceive of a steamboat, a cotton gin, a dynamo or an incandescent lamp and numerous other machines and processes on which so much of life today depends. Nothing in the world is so potent with possibilities as a new idea, and really new ideas are rare and the product of genius. (Not all inventions...