Word: carese
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the native States are legally wet, in the predominantly Moslem Northwest Frontier Province there is all but total prohibition. The Mohammedan religion bars alcohol, and its followers who want to lighten their immediate burdens take narcotics. In none of these places, however, are Europeans prevented from making, selling or...
On the Brain Trust: "A bunch of theoretical, intellectual, professional nincompoops from Columbia University." On the New Deal: "Spurious, sporadic, uncertain, unsound, unworkable, and unconstitutional." On the proposal to establish a Federal Fine Arts Commission: "I do not see how anybody can enjoy listening to the strains of Mendelssohn with...
Spode, Minton, Staffordshire may bring gleams to collectors' eyes, but none of England's famed potteries has quite so hoary or famed a past as Wedgwood. The first Josiah set up for himself in 1759, nine years later built a factory on 1,000 acres of land at...
The broad bosom of the Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna...
Intended in part as a tribute to London's late great Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, who started his famed trade schools for orphans in 1867, Lord Jeff picks up the history of young Geoffrey Braemer (Bartholomew) at the moment when he is caught acting as a blind for two...