Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly 40 years he followed his hazardous calling, North Sea or Gulf of Guinea all one to him in the line of trade. Profoundly pious he peddled Medford rum or flour with the equally clear conscience of the times. Regretfully we leave him at 80, a ruddy-cheeked old man, on a little farm of his own; "the wind has got around to the south," as he returns from a visit to the young orchard...
Animal Experimentation. "Anyone who has seen a child, succumbing to the gradual encroachment of the diphtheria membrane in its throat, suddenly respond to the marvelous effects of a diphtheria antitoxin will oppose to the utmost any attempt to deprive the child of that remedy. . . .I have seen guinea pigs by the thousands utilized for that purpose. . . .I have never seen a guinea pig suffer as much as a hysterical antivivisectionist at a dog show...
...five talked and argued and conspired. But when, after five days, they walked out of the conference chamber they were mum-mum as elephants or guinea pigs...
...only nations which have sent no immigrants are a few of the minor ones with quotas of 100; a roster of nowheres: Afghanistan, British Cameroon, Nepal, New Guinea, Ruanda and Urundi, Tanganyika, Yap, to which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...
...Significance. Elegant roguery on the high seas; brigs putting in from Guinea at midnight with no riding-lights; blackamoors wailing in gyves under iron hatches; these things - no more than sinister rumors to the orderly citizen of 1825 - are familiar enough to all modern worthies who do any reading. They undergo, in this volume, a fastidious renaissance. Unlike many writers of "period" fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times...