Word: everts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nucleus of this collection was the gift in 1915 of the dramatic library of Robert Gould Shaw '69, to which was added two years later the great library of Evert Jansen Wendell '82. Around these two bequests the collection has been built up more and more until it has reached its present tremendous proportions...
...Newport, Tenn. Evert Parker was not able to get enough money to buy shoes for his children. So with his wife and four youngsters he hitchhiked to Washington to be close to the source of supply. One afternoon last week Citizen Parker in overalls and his barefoot family settled down in the gallery of the House of Representatives. In that restful spot, Mrs. Parker unbuttoned her dress, presented her ample breast to her eight-month-old daughter, Hilda Jean...
...whole House embarrassed. Members whispered nervously to one another. Did the gentleman from Kansas see what the gentleman from Maine saw up there in the gallery? Should someone make a point of order? Hilda Jean Parker had been nursing about five minutes when House Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnott tapped Evert Parker ominously on the shoulder. Fishing in the pocket of his blue jeans, Father Parker produced not one but two white paste-boards?admission cards from two distinguished Senators, Huey Long of Louisiana and Carter Glass of Virginia...
...eyes and ears. Surely they should have sighted Cape Race by this time. Surely an intelligible radio bearing should come to guide them Major Charles Kingsford-Smith scowled at the grey fog outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant to a star. Now their latest radio bearing showed them...