Word: essex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong drink and flirtatious ways with other women." Rundown. In Bloomington, Ill., the daily Pantagraph carried this classified ad: "HIGHLY INTELLIGENT fellow . . . lazy, unreliable young man who chews tobacco, has three small children to feed, wants highly paid executive position . . ." Payoff. In Miami, when FBI agents nabbed him, Essex Robinson asked what he was charged with, learned he was wanted for draft evasion, exclaimed: "Oh, is that it? I heard you were after me, so I hurried right down and paid that overdue bill at the clothing store...
Today's outing at the Essex County Club is one of the high points of the reunion. Buses leave the Union at 9:15 for the Club. Classmates will spend the rest of the morning playing golf and tennis at the club. After drinks and a huge meal, some will go off to Manchester Yacht Club for boat rides, while others will head for swimming at Singing Beach. Later there will be a square dance at Essex...
Captain George Pollard of Nantucket, Mass, had been out in one of the whaleboats himself, that day in 1820, when the whaler Essex began to founder. Nobody could have been more dismayed than Captain Pollard when he headed back to his stricken ship. "My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?" he cried. And from Mate Chase, bobbing with other survivors in a small boat, came the laconic answer: "We have been stove by a whale...
Author Edouard Stackpole, who comes from an old Nantucket clan himself, tells the story of the Essex with a plenitude of details and a sober chronicler's lack of shock. Few whaling men had as tragic a time as the men of the Essex, but whaling, as Author Stackpole describes it in The Sea-Himters, was characteristically a dangerous, grim and dirty business. Stack-pole's book is a serious attempt to set down the round story of how it all started, and how for a few generations it made Nantucket rich and famous...
...Madison, N.J., an imported Welsh terrier named Topflight Template of Twin Ponds outclassed 2,611 other entries to win the Morris & Essex Dog Show, biggest...