Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation reveals that the lines are on the gravestone of Susy Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain, that they were written by Australian Poet Robert Richardson, that when Mr. Clemens learned that the lines were attributable to him he ordered Poet Richardson's name inscribed beneath them. On the gravestone the third line reads: "Warm southern wind," although in the original poem it read: "Warm northern wind." In the Antipodes the north wind is balmiest...
...quantity of Russian wheat in passage to European ports at the end of last week amounted to only 3,715,200 bushels out of 44,995,200 bushels in passage from all exporting countries. North American shipments on the way to Europe amount to 29,762,880 bushels, and Australian shipments to 5,036,160 bushels, together nearly ten times the quantity in passage from Russia...
...Australian cricket team: the last and deciding match of its series with England by an inning, 39 runs...
...members of the National Association of the Deaf know how to read lips and to voice intelligible sounds. But they find communication by signs is more accurate. They talk with a single hand, as do the deaf of the rest of the Americas, of Ireland and Europe. English and Australian deaf use both hands. When W. W. McDougall of England addressed the Buffalo convention he required John Shilton of Toronto to interpret...
...country gentleman, comes Mr. Pim, a gentle, absent-minded old man. seeking a letter of introduction. He gets it and ambles off, leaving the household in ruins. For Olivia, George's wife, has been married before, to a scalawag whose fraudulent stock-company transactions finally landed him in an Australian jail. Five years after his reported death, she married her second husband. But Mr. Pim says he has just come from Australia on the same boat with her first. George is horrorstruck. His love for Olivia is solid and settled, but his fear of the Law and the County...