Word: tropics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commotion in San Francisco harbor last week as the Dollar liner President Pierce glided in through the Golden Gate from the Orient. Whistles screamed. Bands blared. Flags flew. Warped into Pier 44, she was quickly boarded by octogenarian Shipowner Robert Dollar who hurried about looking for an erect, spare, tropic-tanned man. He found him on deck, carrying a tightly rolled silk umbrella, and gave him a tremendous handshake which carried with it the welcome of the whole U.S. The browned voyager was none other than Henry Lewis Stimson, returning from the post of Governor-General of the Philippines...
...escaped dengue fever, he said, and superstitiously rapped the wooden handle of his umbrella. Yes, his rheumatism was better, thanks to the tropic heat and tennis. Did he have apprehensions or misgivings about his high post? Statesman Stimson drew in his chin and replied...
...south of Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native woman bear her child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written...
...They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle where Pauline Bonaparte, sprightly sister of the Emperor, held a tropical court filled with tropic passions...
Commercially Brazil is a backward Colossus. The torpor of her tropic citizens and the very plenitude of projects at their disposal has made the land somewhat notorious as el pasado manana-"the country of tomorrow." A succession of get-rich-quick booms-during which immense numbers of Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom...