Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...date on what it called "sensational, destructive propaganda" of consumer groups. Conceived by elegant, tweedy, grey-mustached Editor Louis J. F. Moore, the Druggist's campaign is based on a frank appeal to buyers to put their trust in the biggest ads. Keynote: "WHO'S A GUINEA PIG? . . . The real guinea pigs are the people who experiment . . . take chances . . . with products which are NOT backed by a well-known house...
...Samoa, a hurricane sideswiped the Idle Hour, snapped her sticks, and for 25 days the boys, sailed the 1,200 miles to New Zealand under a jury mast, with a blanket for sail. After repairs, the Idle Hour touched at Sydney, New Guinea, Bali, Singapore, carrying an occasional venturesome paying passenger. At Colombo, Ceylon, Timi caught malaria, died in Long's arms. Long saw to Timi's burial, then sailed on to London, stayed a year, wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from...
Lying round unanswered in Virginia Woolf's desk as the book opens are three letters requesting the gift of a sum of money. Being an intelligent woman who must make her own living, she can contribute only a guinea (about $5) to each. First guinea goes to rebuild a women's college, is accompanied by a long letter containing her views on education. If the college is to be rebuilt on the old lines, she says, her guinea might as well go for matches to burn it down. She would like it to be a "poor college," with...
...second guinea, to a society for helping women enter the professions, also has a string tied to it: the women must withdraw from the professions as soon as they can, before they start yawning at dinner. The third guinea goes to a society for prevention of war-and because Virginia Woolf is not very sure how societies go about preventing war, it has no conditions at all. She sympathizes, naturally, with its aims. But to the invitation to join its ranks she answers No. Women are different from men; they would lose their identity by going into bi-sexual societies...
Conversions In the Papuan jungles of New Guinea, Geoffrey Baskett from the Kwata Mission reported that he had converted 300 head hunters to the Oxford Movement...