Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Middle Atlantic States use little snuff, the Middle West is poor except for Minnesota and the Dakotas where Scandinavians live. In the Far West, field workers, shipworkers and sailors account for big sales. Little snuff advertising is done except in foreign-language newspapers. In New England mills, manufacturers give away free samples...
...tons of water every minute. For days on end two men were lashed to the wheel day & night, three worked the pumps, three slept. Nobody looked sternward where the seas piled up. They felt better looking ahead. Every man on board was seasick though all were experienced sailors except 200-lb. Whitey Peterson of Bristol, R. I. Landlubber Peterson fought the sea like a personal enemy, took the longest stretches at the wheel. Weak from lack of sleep and living on canned goods and apples, the eight adventurers and their bosses could hardly stand by the time they made Southampton...
...news, to announce that life is literally a dream, to accuse her of being asleep. "You are asleep with your eyes not quite closed, slits of white showing." Caroline invariably admits the truth of his suave impeachment but to date (aetat. 60) has done nothing much about it except call for madder music, stronger wine. At last, however, she retires to a New England cottage to write her reminiscences, get them off her mind. Then she will go some other place, do something else...
...five new Houses opened to Sophomores and Juniors are Adams, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, and John Winthrop. Lowell and Dunster Houses will not be open to these classes this year except on the chance that any Sophomore or Junior in one of these houses should drop...
...Oldenburg. Hanging on the same wall is a "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, a striking contrast to the Rembrandt in its breadth. Both pictures add examples of the Dutch School which up until this time have not been represented in the Fogg Museum collection except by occa- Family" by Murillo, as well as one of the many versions of El Greco's subject, "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple." Several Italian primitives and other Flemish and Dutch works are also included in the bequest...