Word: island
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eagerly seized on the war as an issue whereby he might recoup lost prestige. He raised the eternal French-Canadian bugaboo of conscription for a British-Canadian war, and decreed an election. It was an important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked, Hitler-mustached, Bon Vivant M. Duplessis...
Anson G. McCook of Pasadena, California, and Catalina Island School; Stoughton Hall...
...island's small oil docks and ammunition dumps were clapped under guard. Veterans of World War I were given guard detail until one fell asleep at his post (oil dock) while smoking a cigaret, which dropped and caused a big grass fire. Veterans also showed a regrettable tendency to detour their sentry beats to nearby bars: the orderly officer, making his rounds one evening, found the ammunition dump completely deserted and reproachfully wrote his name all over the walls before the sentries reappeared...
...Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who resigned his post as Governor General last April because the Colonial Assembly refused to let him have an automobile (only garbage and soldiers were allowed trucks) must have been piqued to hear that cars were now permitted all over the islands. Fire engines and ambulances filled with war workers screeched through Hamilton; the Army rumbled around in "trolleys"-large trucks formerly used for carrying convicts to work; manager of the Mid-Ocean Club, who owned a car for use within the Club's 200-acre estate, dashed happily back & forth with...
...wear green coats in the field). Some packs are privately owned, like Mrs. William du Pont Jr.'s Foxcatcher Beagles (a misnomer,* because a beagle could never catch a fox). Others are subscription packs, like the Treweryn Beagles of Berwyn, Pa. and the Buckram Beagles of Brookville, Long Island, which anyone with sturdy legs and a presentable papa may join...