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...Cunarder turned south from her North Atlantic lane; the Japanese freighter Toledo Maru came heavily about to go to the rescue; just over the horizon a Cuban sugar tramp crawled patiently on, having no wireless...
...district attorney to bully a young scapegrace into making the conflicting statements which cause him to be convicted of first-degree murder. The first part of the picture somewhat sketchily outlines early episodes in the career of the murderer, Clyde Griffiths. He is shown as a bellhop, a tramp, a dishwasher, then as a foreman in the collar factory of a rich uncle. He seduces a factory girl, Roberta Alden, and attempts to desert her when he is attracted by Sondra Finchley, richer and correspondingly more interesting. When Roberta Alden tells Clyde Griffiths that she is going to have...
Object of the demonstration was not a world flyer or bathing beauty but a flag-draped little Swedish freighter, the Anna, tying up at the Montgomery Ward pier. What made the Anna's arrival noteworthy was the fact that she, a half-loaded tramp, was the first ocean-going vessel to carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt...
...lead toward the nomination was the recent spread of unfavorable stories about his health. He could not stand four years in the White House, said his opponents. In the summer of 1921 Mr. Roosevelt was at his camp in New Brunswick, Canada. After a hard cross-country tramp, he went swimming in the icy Bay of Fundy. Exhausted, he, aged 39, was stricken with infantile paralysis. In 72 hr. his body was dead from the waist down. His physician told him he would never walk again. But he began to try, first on crutches. At Warm Springs, Ga. he found...
...hours there, reading, swimming, and basking in the sun. It might even turn into a "nudist colony"; then Yale would have something besides "architecture" for which it could be discussed all over the United States. And in the winter there would be an opportunity to skate and ski and tramp through the woods. It is really enjoyable at times to go off into the country, cook one's own food, sleep out of doors, all with a minimum of hardship...