Word: island
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...base for other real estate). In 1937 the tax assessed was $9,902 per mile of line. It gave New Jersey the U. S. rail-taxing championship: nearly seven times as high as the U. S. average, 2½ times that of the next highest State (Rhode Island). It amounted for Jersey Central to the equivalent of $682 per employe...
Last week on Belle Isle, in a clearing near the centre of the island, overlooking a lagoon, Nancy turned the first shovelful of ground for the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. She broke the sod with a beribboned spade supplied by Publisher Scripps of the News. The ceremony was unheralded : only the tower's architect and trustees, a few city officials, the News editor, Nancy Brown's grandniece and grandnephew were on hand...
...limestone shaft, 90 feet tall, topped by a dome. In the base will be an organ. Nancy hopes to have it ready for her sunrise service next Easter Morning, will dedicate it formally to Peace on Father's Day. Opposite the site, in the lagoon, lies a small island. The Commissioner of Parks is going to move the island, so that Nancy's tower can be reflected full length...
Subsidiary reasons: A Sea Island Lady is 964 pages long and weighs 2 Ibs. 10½ oz. It is written in that tireless, fluescent, infallibly platitudinous language which commonly passes for "literature," and in whose terms Joyce, in Ulysses, created Gerty MacDowell...
Though A Sea Island Lady never in any direction exceeds what its audience can take, it rarely eases up short of that. Within those limits it is extraordinarily warm, full, and actual, and by bulk alone gathers an enormous and serene momentum that ends by making the story seem as real and immediate as air. To the proper reader, Emily Fenwick becomes a useful magic mirror for solace, nostalgia, future-gazing, and self-comparison...