Word: tropics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfection. Ah, to be a barefoot native! . . . But business pressed. Mr. Thompson reluctantly doffed his white helmet to the glistening coral beach, proceeded to the Island of Palawan where a launch took him up the Iwahig River to the Iwahig Penal Colony. Here he saw crocodiles, alligators, exuberant tropic vegetation. He saw, also, 1,700 convicts living happily with their wives and children, cultivating their own crops, often saving as much as $1,000 in one term. They rarely try to escape, even though there are no walls or bars. The officers in the colony have only three firearms...
...glittering new houseboat rode majestically on the head waters of the Amazon. On the deck stood a missionary, his wife, and their little South American Indian princess. On the tropic shore, all the little Incas went "Inck, inck, inck," danced with joy to see the long-awaited galleon. Some such vision swam before the eyes of Reverend and Mrs. F. A. Stahl when announcement was made last week at a Seventh Day Adventist camp near Worcester, Mass., that they had been presented with a houseboat by Mrs. Heber Herbert Votaw, wife of a superintendent of federal prisons, sister...
Died. Albert Merritt Billings, 32, Manhattan clubman, son of Financier-Sportsman Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings of New York and California, on his yacht Tropic in New York Harbor, attended by his wife Margaret ("Teen") Shaw Billings; of embolism (blood clot...
...maniacs that make up the wild crew of Captain Ceeley's vessel do not depend entirely upon their make-up to show how wild they are; and Dolores Castello is demurely passionate as the heroine a missionary's daughter, and Ahab's betrothed. In one scene, beneath a tropic moon, John Bar more, aided and abetted by Miss Costello--we mention this merely by the way--utterly puts Mr. Valentino to shame I you have not yet sent in your vote to the film magazines for the greatest lover of 1926, don't overlook John. We are, after seeing...
...Reed, Johns Hopkins University biometrist, presented charts showing that "When there are 200,000,000 people in the U. S., some will go hungry unless tropic soils are exploited or artificial foods contrived...