Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harbor, a picture town of white houses and green lawns, fountains and a cold blue surf, stands smoothly against the ocean. Here fashionable people drift across bright water in sailboats or across wide polished roads in automobiles. Across Salisbury Cove other fashionable people have their docks for swimming, in Winter Harbor. Along the coast is the polite and spectacular beauty of Mount Desert. Sorrento lies near the three, a village in which there are a few big country places and several inns, where people, rich and respectable rather than smart, stay for a few weeks or a month...
...yacht was the Marabel, a pleasure craft which had just been remodeled as a hospital ship and given by Miss Susan Dwight Bliss of Manhattan to the hospital at Indian Harbor, Labrador, a unit of Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfells famed and farflung medical missions. The Marabel was laden with winter supplies for hard-working doctor- preachers. The women burned were Grenfell volunteers, the Misses Harriot Houghteling of Chicago, Ill., and Margaret Pierce of Haverford...
Service for Ladies (Adolph Menjou). The most perfect headwaiter in Paris, whom even kings know by name, goes vacationing to a winter sports colony in Switzerland, in order to be near the lady of his love-at-first-sight. There a thousand trifling circumstances force it upon his uneasy conscience that a headwaiter, though the apogee of elegance, is hardly high enough to reach for an heiress. Humbled for, the first time, he trudges back to his dining-room. There she discovers him. Being a democratic U. S. girl, the heiress graciously trots into the kitchen after the dejected...
Diggers for the Field Museum, Chicago, returned last winter from the barrens of northern Argentina, bringing 3,000 pounds of fossil promacrauchenia (ancestor of the llama), glyptodonts (giant armadillos), toxodonts (hippopotami...
Frank X. Shields is National Junior Tennis Champion. Shields, New York youth, ploughed through five bitter sets at Forest Hills, L. I., to win 7-5, 6-8, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4, from Julius Seligson, also New York. Shields was tired but happy. Last winter he was beaten for the Indoor Junior championship by this same Seligson...