Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Admiralty sold two battle cruisers, the Hindenburg and the Seydlitz, and 24 destroyers-sold them as they lie upon the bottom. They went "cheap" -from $1,250 to $7,500 each, depending less upon the size of the vessel than on the depth at which it lies. Cox & Danks, the buyers, have the business of "unscuttling" the ships and junking them. The vessels lie in from 60 to 160 ft. of water. It is one of the greatest salvaging problems which have ever been undertaken...
They were not the sort of knavish sprites that frighten housewives, pinch old men sleeping, and mislead night-wanderers. No, they were kindly imps. "Every one of the Brownies does good," once said Palmer Cox, "without any thought of reward. Every one of my Brownie books is packed with morals, but I don't think that the children who read them have the least idea that they're there." If the children had, the Brownie books might not have become as they did, standbys in every household...
...Once they became stranded on an island far from shore. They could not get off by building a boat because they had done that before, and the rule was not to be broken. How were they to escape ? Innumerable American children sorrowed; nurses worried; mothers wrote, letters to Mr. Cox. At last he thought of a way to save them; birds flew over from the mainland and the Brownies rode back to safety through the air. Now they are stranded again, and there is no one to get them off. The birds have come for Palmer Cox...
...entertaining little creatures he had invented. Before you had known him very long, he would present you with a card on which he had painted a Brownie in glowing colors, and had printed a verse supposed to be peculiarly fitted to your own temperament. I think that Mr. Cox came to believe that there was something mystical about a Brownie. Perhaps there was. I can remember spending hours as a child curled in a huge red armchair with bound volumes of St. Nicholas, reveling in the pranks of the Brownies, the Indian, the policeman, the sailor, Uncle Sam. What...
Died. Palmer Cox, 75, famed creator of the Brownies; in Quebec (see Page...