Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believer in presidential dignity, rarely does President Hoover lend himself to advertising publicity. Last week however he did, when Washington's Senator Dill brought to the White House for a presidential greeting Miss Helen Brenton of Tacoma, Wash., Smart Set's choice of a "Typical American Girl...
Seventeen miles out to sea she sailed to inspect White Rock Island, under the lee of Santa Catalina Island.* Its two acres of level tableland formed of whitish rock, sheering out of the sea and covered only with stunted growth, looked good to her. Her desire to possess it became fixed...
...investigation she found that White Rock did not belong to Santa Catalina, nor to California...
...took White Rock up with the General Land Office in Washington. U. S. officials had never heard of it, refused to believe its existence until it had been officially surveyed and "claimed" by the U.S. Having rescued the island from geographic oblivion, Mrs. Morton was more determined than ever to possess it. She asked the Land Office to sell it. But the U. S. does not sell such public domain...
Government officials told Mrs. Morton there were two ways she could "own" White Rock: 1) Go to it, "enter" it, make a "habitable home" on it, live on it for three years, thus acquire title to it under the homestead...