Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After many years of Spanish, my English may be a bit dubious and probably is, as the only other English-speaking person here is a Jamaica Negro with an Oxford accent, which mixes me worse than...
...silver to be seen is the Great Salt, pictured above. Coming into the possession of the College into the possession of the College in 1644, the bequest of Richard Harris, an early resident and Fellow Commoner and the brother-in-law of Henry Dunster, this is the oldest bit of College Silver now extant. As fingers were used entirely while eating, the dainty students would wipe their fingers (before dipping them into the salt) upon the napkin which rested on the three knobs which may be seen on the rim. The napkin also aided in keeping flies from the salt...
...appear on it in the future nor that he had not deserved a similar honor in the past. He was a star end on the California football team of 1917. Then 27, he left college to join the Army. After the War, he became a Hollywood cinemactor, had a bit part as recently as 1934 as head jailer in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra. Since 1932 Chief Loane West has built up a profitable sideline of giving lectures at $25 apiece on "Indian health methods," consisting of simple living, daily exercises, rough foods. He recommends one cigar in three...
Last week George Milburn used the catalogs as the basis for a short, episodic bit of authentic Americana, detailing what led to or what followed some 30 purchases j of articles in them. A thin thread of narrative holds the episodes of Catalogue together, but most of the book is given over to candid, unlovely but often grimly humorous portraits of the natives-Spike, the mean taxidriver; Shannon, the old postmaster, who is almost the only humane figure in the lot; the unfaithful bride, whose lover is in terror of her husband's shotgun; old Double S. Winston...
...left when melting snow water and spring rains had passed. . . . Without difficulty one can find these in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Indiana wherever one chooses. The skull? Oh, that's a movable 'prop' which comes in handy for photographers who want to touch up their pictures with a bit of the grisly...