Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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RELATIONS-Sir Harry Johnston -Harper ($2). People who were enthusiastic about The Gay Dombeys and Mrs. Warren's Daughter are going to be faintly disappointed by Sir Harry's new opus. He has been careless and a mite dull. His people are a rich Australian who marries the Governor's daughter-and their many relations. It is the kind of book in which plot matters not a whit and conversation, behavior and obiter dicta are everything. The first is stilted, the second unreal-having breakfasted, these upper-class Brit-ishers "wiped their lips and put down their...
...operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and commanded by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian-born soldier of fortune...
...Ellis will lecture on "Some Significant Aspects in the Development of Australian Banking" in the Common Room of Conant Hall at 7.15 o'clock this evening...
...faces of the people he encountered, scrutinizing their hair, their ears and jaws, their chins and cheekbones. When he returned last fall he remarked upon the strangeness of seeing "red Indians" in Asia, Negritos (a Philippine and African type), in India, yellow-haired and bearded women among black Australian aborigines. He is "a great one for remembering faces," a greater one for understanding, classifying them...
Captain Wilkins is an Australian by his papers and a Nomanslander by his instincts. Educated in Sydney to be an engineer, the world first observed him as a motion picture man, when he secured the first front-line close-ups of the Balkan Wars in 1912. He went with Shackleton to the suburbs of the South Pole. He went north with Stefansson. He was a War aviator. These last three years he has been beating through tropical Australia for the British Museum. Last week Captain Wilkins announced that he would act upon Stefansson's theory that a man may live...