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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back for us before we have to take to distilling sea water.--Dr. Allen and I have enjoyed ourselves muchly--this seems rather like breaking the hotel hoodoo--and I think we're getting a pretty fair collection, at least of the land Vertebrates. . . We have managed enough to eat, especially with occasional wallaby gobs, or crayfish given us by Mr. Hosking, the cannery boss, not to mention mutton birds and fish; there is also a remarkably jeestly oyster on the reef to the south, which Dr. Allen and I sampled briefly yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reptilian Denizens of Wallaby Islands Succumb to Wiles of Thirsty Entomologists Living at Cannery | 1/6/1932 | See Source »

...back in the miserable hotel again, once more coping with the double ply British pudding.--We are finally managing to eat off separate plates again, instead of snatching alternate mouthfuls out of the same pot.--Well, we hope at least that our collection is worth the fortnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reptilian Denizens of Wallaby Islands Succumb to Wiles of Thirsty Entomologists Living at Cannery | 1/6/1932 | See Source »

...valley's gypsies with a firm brown hand, was crowned "King of all the Gypsies in the null Last week, from far & near, a horde of Pharaoh's People gathered outside Los Angeles to pay King Mark due homage. Peddlers, phrenologists, fortune-tellers and silversmiths convened to eat succulent barbecued steer, to dance and to drink as much wine as they could hold. One who did himself particularly well at the jubilee was Louis Adams. King Mark's brother. Dark Louis fell to brooding over his wife from whom he had separated in Chicago two months before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Pharaoh's People | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

Second prize was given to Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of the Senate's Democratic minority, for "Vote Democratic and eat regularly." A. H. Kessler of Hague, S. Dak. carried off a $10 third prize with: "If we want a change for the better, we'd better make a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Heel Hawl-- | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...horses and hounds, Virginia's Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries last week set aside $500 and made an announcement : The next 500 foxes killed in Virginia will be sent to the Commission, their stomachs examined, the question settled, once & for all, of just what a fox does eat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 500 Foxes | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

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