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...hate Tony. He's the only American in Berkenmeer. The rest of us are a bunch of decadent colonials clinging to a transplanted civilization as alien to America as cricket and crumpets. . . . Wheat, iron, coal, power-and we are still living in a world of maple-syrup and whale-oil! . . . Maybe they'll settle it by putting us on reservations like the Indians. They might set New England aside...
...first eccentric hero. Late in the 18th century, an illiterate tanner named Timothy Dexter, who had made a fortune in Continentals, moved to Newburyport and there performed commercial prodigies. He shipped mittens and warming pans to the West Indies, coal cargoes to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He cornered the whale- bone market. His profits startled...
...company of dolls will take the boards in Boston tonight to enact the Boston Symphony Orchestra at its busiest, Jonah and the Whale at the height of their disagreement with one another, willow trees which go democratic and grow bananas, and stories of Chinese mandarins and their lovely, distressed daughters...
...instance, is done on Jonah and his Whale. Not only are these two principals shown in intimate discourse, but Mrs. Whale lends a feminine and domestic touch to the scene with a little marital argument in which the unfortunate Jonah is discussed as a Jonah to the cetaccan digestion, much like Mr. Kipling's mariner who made it uncomfortable for the whale's throat...
...they felt it foolhardy to fly through fog with 1,000 feet maximum altitude, gave up temporarily the transatlantic flight, returned to Le Bourget. ¶Capt. F. T. Courtney, English flyer, waited almost all summer to make the treacherous westward passage across the Atlantic in his flying boat, The Whale. With autumn coming and weather chances fading, he hopped off from Plymouth, England. Fearing the dangerous northern route on which were lost Nungesser and Coli, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, Courtney steered for the Azores. Head winds and thick weather fought with him. Cautious, he turned his ship and came...