Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
...attending, but may even sleep through an impending examination. As soon, however, as the spring sun gets back to its habits of yore, and the weather man recollects that it is no longer April, but close to the end of May, we shall once more be hot on the trail of an early morning education...
Michigan. Alfred Owen Crozier of the National Republican Club contributed his summer home, "Wildwood on the Old Indian Trail," near Harbor Springs. Inducements: 300 acres; a new log cabin of Norway pine. Mr. Crozier said the President had termed his offer "most alluring" but that no definite decision had been made...
...four menservants in the lurch. The reader is expected to sympathize with this move, and, if the experience of the reviewer is any criterion, fails pitifully. All this despite the assistance of a scene at the end, when a New York swell of Mr. Overlook's acquaintance hits the trail to Maine to find out what has happened to that financier...
...They abandoned ten dead, and 20 horses and carried off many wounded, judging by the bloody trail they left...