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Their great luck was that they had landed near an inhabited lighthouse. One Jacques le Tempier, the keeper, told them, during the pauses of his astonishment, that they were on Greenly Island in the narrow Strait of Belle Isle between Labrador and Newfoundland. Hospitably he put on water to boil and meat to cook. The fliers ate in the yellow light of kitchen lamps...
...swam the Strait of Gibraltar," said Miss Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer. She added that it took her twelve hours and three-quarters to get across. "What proof have you got, Miss Gleitz?" The swimmer showed a deposition signed by 60 Moroccans who said they saw her land or start or who went with her in little boats. Miss Gleitz said she knew one Englishman had seen her do it. He was a young boy. She described him, but he couldn't be found. Last year Miss Gleitz said she had swum the English Channel but refused...
Radio warnings, sent by the Dutch government, are now scurrying around the East Indies warning the Javanese and Sumatrans to beware Krakatoa. The small island volcano in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, is yeasting to explode again. Already it has drooled a small land mass into the adjacent water. At any time it may blow...
...shop, has fallen in love with Julien a poet and "pillar of a cabaret" as Louise's mother succintly describes him. Julien has written frankly to the parents to ask for Louise's hand in marriage. The poet's careless life and invisible income do not prepossess the somewhat strait-laced parents in his favor, and they refuse his offer. Louise promises to clope with her lover if the opposition continues. After a fantastic picture of Montmartre at night in which the rag-pickers, the small coals dealer, the old clothes man and other peddlars philosophize upon life, the scene...
...inaugurating the new port at Barcelona, which cost more than 100,000,000 pesetas ($19,300,000), King Alfonso urged the study of a tube to Africa under the Strait of Gibraltar? a distance of about twelve miles...