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Norfolkians might have felt better if they had recalled one seafaring Thomas Dover, who (circa 1730) combined to an unusual degree the callings of doctor and pirate. Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever. He prescribed a powder with opium (to make symptoms subside) and ipecac (to make a patient sweat and give him "a sense of progress...
Ever since he started to publish rhymes (circa 1885), Rudyard Kipling has been one of the world's most read and most neglected poets. Americans and Britons who would not be found dead with a book of poems in their pockets read Kipling-worse, they memorized whole stanzas. A graduating class in a U.S. college which did not name Kipling's If- as its favorite poem might be presumed to have something wrong with...
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (20th Century-Fox) sumptuously swaggers into Manhattan's Technicolored past (circa 1880) in which Miss Grable plays a music-hall queen from London named Madeleine Marlowe. Madeleine's betrothal to a Duke (Reginald Gardner) is mucked up by cover articles in the Police Gazette which unmask her as the onetime toast of Brooklyn Burlesque, Rosie O'Grady. Rosie wreaks vengeance upon Police Gazette Journalist Sam McGee (Robert Young) by telling the rest of the press that he has wooed her for her fortune. She gets him fired. Journalist McGee gallantly retaliates...
...Artist's Model," Anton Walbrook is an artist "famous for his nudes." Equally famous as a lover in circa 1900 Vienna, he has much trouble leaving one woman, protecting the reputation of a second, and winning the hand of a third. His "love of convenience" with the latter, an unsophisticated girl, turns into the real thing, to the chagrin of his ex-pash. She schemes to break up the affair, and finding that be still won't come back to her, finally plugs him with a small roscoe, containing two cigarettes and one bullet. Things finally get straightened...
Canny Catherine would furnish "neither men, ships, nor money" for trade with the Alaska region. But she was willing to let the merchants furnish them. So the Siberian sea trader, Grigor Shelekhov, decided (circa 1780) to plant a Russian, colony in North America...