Word: orinoco
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Nevertheless, it is to Mr. Bickford's prospecting camp that Miss Twelve trees goes as housekeeper. Virtuously she makes out the limits of a housekeeper's duties with the aid of a revolver. One fine day, a long-lost lover comes ahydroplaning down the Orinoco, though it might be the "great, green, greasy Limpopo", for all we care. Interest grows as the young man precipitates a triangle and goes slinking around the house at night whispering to the girl. Later, the story outdoes itself by revealing that the hero isn't a hero after all, but a selfish meanie...
...Herbert Spencer Dickey was back in Manhattan last week from his discovery of the Orinoco's headwaters (TIME, Sept. 28 et ante). Each day he went to his office in the Explorers Club to work on a tart book for which fellow explorers, lounging in the club's red chairs, may denounce him. To be published this winter, the book is a denunciation of expeditions, particularly those to South America. Dr. Dickey considers the aims of most expeditions falsely pretentious, insincere. Men go on most of them really for sport, not for science. Their scientific results...
...bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife" of Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey. I have accompanied my husband on a number of trips, through Ecuador, Peru and Brazil, and on one occasion to within 300 miles of the source of the Orinoco with...
...however, accompany my husband and his party to the source of the Orinoco on the trip from which we are now returning. I remained, instead, on the lower Orinoco collecting specimans, and gathering data for my forthcoming lecture tour...
Last week Dr. Dickey was at an unmapped place on the Orinoco called Tama Tama. Like all enterprising explorers he had made a reportorial connection with the New York Times. To that paper he wirelessed first news of his discovery. Included in the despatch was mention of a 40-ft. waterfall over which his disabled outboard-motored canoe almost drifted and which he has "named, for a salient figure in the newspaper and exploration world, Russell Owen Cascade...