Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Katie" runs from St. Louis to Kansas City, Mo., then due south, parallel to the. K. C. Southern, through Parsons, Kan., Muskogee, Okla., Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston, Tex., to Galveston, Tex., on the Gulf of Mexico. Its commodities are those of the K. C. Southern, plus merchandise transshipped from the East at St. Louis...
...piece is less a story than an impressionistic anecdote. It ironically details the slender history of a nameless Negro in an overseas battalion who was caught filching food from another outfit's mess. He finds that the hardboiled lieutenant to whom he is brought for discipline hails from Galveston, Tex. So does the Negro. They chat together for a few minutes. Months later the officer learns that the black regiment has been destroyed...
First of these is Soprano Ethel Dreda Aves, niece and daughter of Episcopalian clergymen, her uncle being Bishop of Mexico. When she left her home in Galveston, to cultivate her voice her father stormed: "I would sooner see you dead here at my feet than appearing behind the footlights of a stage...
...been a tornado, a fire, an earthquake or a tidal wave, doubtless there would have been the usual outburst of piously blasphemous explanations that the divine patience was exhausted and that the sufferers were getting what was coming to them for their intolerable iniquities. It was so with Galveston, San Francisco and Florida. It is doubtful whether there has been any notable improvement in theological thinking since those earlier disasters, and the problems of theodicy* are as baffling as ever. But this is a plain case of high water. One can almost see why it happened. At least...
...their big seaplane. He had just shaved freshly out over the Gulf of Mexico, finished off his ship's last bottle of Chianti, played his phonograph. Voluble gentlemen, one of them enormously corpulent (Mayor O'Keefe), welcomed him to the U. S. Soon he was hopping again, to Galveston, to San Antonio. His four-continent itinerary called for flight across the desert southwest to the Pacific, north to Seattle, back (following lakes) to Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland, the Azores, Portugal, Rome. He hoped to get home on April 21, anniversary of Rome's founding, certain of a prodigious "triumph...