Word: tip
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Appearing before the House Public Lands Committee, she sponsored her bill to create Everglades National Park at the southwest tip of Florida. Called as a witness was a man who has spent much time in the 2,000-sq.-mi. area, famed Gynecologist-Naturalist Howard Atwood Kelly of Baltimore. Dr. Kelly told the committee about the grandeur of the vast mangrove swamp with its rare white ibis and roseate spoonbills. He impressed upon his listeners that the district harbored the only tropical bird rookery in the U. S. Then, lest the committee grow bored, he released a slithering grey & yellow...
...beginning to be copied. Benchley, a serious fellow-humorist, points out that Arno and the New Yorker between them have popularized the one-line joke (e. g.-a man driving a car pulls up beside a huge truck half on its side in a ditch, inquires politely: ''Tip over?"). ''Peter Arno may not have been the first to make use of the overheard remark as a basis for a drawing, but he has made himself the High Priest of the school by now. ... To see one of Peter Arno's illustrations of a one-line...
...Southampton last week as he sailed for Manhattan on the Aquitania, Mr. Young was not even asked by correspondents whether he had been in Paris. To their other eager questions he replied: "If I should start talking about moratoriums, gold and other interesting questions, as you ask, I would tip off the whole hand. . . . I am keeping quiet until the right time...
Fire last week destroyed the famed little Grenfell Hospital at Battle Harbor, village of 80 families at Labrador's southern tip. The Battle Harbor Hospital was the first which Famed Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell built when he started his medical missionary work in Labrador 38 years ago. It contained 30 beds, none occupied last week. The patients had been moved inland for the winter.* Dr. Grenfell was in England at the time, lecturing. He expects to remain there until next March...
...months ago, the Mitchell expedition, under the auspices of the U. S. Naval Observatory, set out to keep its 93-sec. engagement. The totality band of this year's eclipse spread across the southern Pacific from Australia to the tip of South America. On its way it crossed only two tiny points of land: Nurakita, an inaccessible island, and Niuafou in the Tonga group, home of 1,500 Polynesian natives. Because it stands so proudly high in a treacherous sea, ships can not approach Niuafou. Mail is sent to shore in tin cans. Hence the island is familiarly called...