Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anxious to be present at the impending royal and naval functions in Bermuda, many a U. S. tycoon & wife opened their white-roofed cottage last week. Humbler citizens took hotel rooms. Bermudian landlords, shopkeepers, bartenders rubbed their hands appreciatively. But not many U. S. vacationers who have gone to warmer, quieter Nassau in previous winters changed their custom for Royalty's sake. Between Bermuda and Nassau exists a gentle rivalry shared loyally by those who cause...
...more than a column of fine type in The Sunday Herald. And that is not the whole story. Many men are at it whose performances do not call for the attention of sporting editors. The season begins in earnest after the Harvard-Yale football game, and from then until warmer weather the number of men who use the courts every day is high in the hundreds...
...never been in the U. S. he has written some satirical verse about it (Pep). He worked three years on Success, was glad to hear it had been chosen by the Literary Guild for November, helped his wife into his U. S. motor, set out for a tour of warmer countries, will not be back for more than a year. Other books: The Ugly Duchess, Two Anglo-Saxon Plays...
...casually swept aside by his brother. Sebastian's motives are purely fraternal when he starts out to help Caryl find Fenella, the girl Caryl loves, the girl who has sworn eternal love to him. Caryl again sits by while Sebastian's fraternal motives are overcome by something warmer. After Venice, where his ambition has foundered, and the Dolomites, where the search for Fenella and Sebastian's conquest of her has taken place, Caryl goes to London. Sebastian follows, continuing his bland usurpation of Caryl's life. The reasons for these happenings are bona fide. They...
...foreseeing, taking precautions. Byrd might have taken a chance and made a dash for the Pole by plane the day he got to Little America, but explorers need not be gamblers; Byrd caught the South Pole in a net of arithmetical detail. When the base-ship went back to warmer water, the camp on the ice-desert became a little city. You see the city live its life-dealing with whales, ice deserts, seals, penguins, wireless communications. The trip over the Pole itself is exciting in spite of a dreary monolog of explanatory comments by Floyd Gibbons, inserted...