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Some of the tales Jimmy told his guests to illustrate his contention that Patagonia was a man's country: a favorite Indian pick-me-up for a hangover was a mixture of raw liver, heart, kidneys and blood of a guanaco (llama-like native antelope). When two men were having a fight, one bit off the other's ear; the earless man got his opponent down, beat him about the face till he swallowed the ear. As indication that not all Patagonian hard cases are yet dead, jailed or retired, Jimmy wrote the Childses after their departure that...
Stephen Fuller Austin was a wiry little Missouri trader and politician who went down to Texas in 1821 to found, at San Felipe, the first permanent Anglo-American settlement in that raw Mexican territory. His father Moses had dreamed of the project, died before he could carry it through. William Barrett Travis was an impetuous young Alabama lawyer-school-teacher who married one of his pupils, went to Texas to get away from her. Sam Houston, hard drinker and hard fighter, quit the Governorship of Tennessee and drifted to Texas because his aristocratic young wife had left...
...domestic consumption from 36,000,000 sq. yd. in 1935 to 21,000,000 in the first three months of 1936. Against the $5,000,000 per year which the U. S. spends for Japanese cotton cloth, Japan spends about $110,000,000 per year for U. S. raw cotton. Last week news of the U. S. tariff boost caused Yoshihisa Shikamura, managing director of Japan's great Fuji Gas Spinning Co., to exclaim: "Our cotton industry will suffer a severe blow, and it is necessary to take immediate countermeasures. It would be impossible to prohibit all American cotton...
...their shoulders before hazarding a political remark; he got the habit himself. The suppression of publicity has resulted in a plethora of scandalous rumors. Glasses of tea are always too hot to pick up conveniently. The food is too heavy. Vodka, the national drink, is simply a form of raw alcohol. Russian wastebaskets are so wide-meshed that everything falls through them. When Russians make beds they never tuck in the bedclothes. Wilson's stay in Russia brought out his U. S. patriotism, made him feel that Americanism was different from everything European not in degree but in kind...
Seniors who think of going into teaching may be tempted to make one mistake that is so serious as to be almost fatal: They may try to get a job without the training that will enable them to make teaching a career. It is still possible for the "raw A.B." to find a position as a teacher, but it will be a position in a small public school or in a private school that takes apprentices for small pay. The larger cities throughout the country, and most of the states, require technical courses in Education and advanced study...