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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started homeward last November. At one time they "had only one oogiuk [sea lion] skin for ourselves and the dogs for two days. But the main trouble was water. If we hadn't let our beards grow, we would have been dead men. That is the way we got water-just sucked the icicles we broke off our beards. I learned that trick from an Eskimo on Banks Island...
...William. William was not a brilliant boy, but he was smart enough to understand the spirit of the office, and young enough to exaggerate it almost comically. 'Mr. Hadden' became his god. William hated to leave at night. Probably he wouldn't have left if Brit hadn't told him he should go to night school. One day when Brit was not in the office and someone called William to do a chore, he uttered a remark that became an office classic. He was sitting in his cubby-hole among the piled up out-of-town...
...unusual native charm of his State Fair is achieved less by literary magic than by his hometown knowledge of the farmer-philosopher civilization indigenous to Iowa. Says he: "I was an lowan for 17 years. Once in a while they commit suicide or there's a baby the village hadn't expected. But take the run of them and they're pretty good, salty folks." Of novel-writing: "Last summer I went at it scientifically. I got in good physical condition. I'd take a cold bath, wear only shorts, have a cold drink handy. I'd wallop the typewriter...
...Gods, I'd be graduated from college and holding a big position now if it hadn't been for Greek," exploded Mr. Murphy, letter-carrier extraordinary of the Yard in a recent interview. "Those teachers made me keep on taking Greek and Greek and more Greek until I just couldn't stand it any more, so I ups to the principal and says, "I can't do this stuff, I never wanted to, and still don't and never will. I quit this school right now, and to the devil with...
McCall, a substitute for two years, has turned out this season as the greatest running back on the team. An 84-yard run-back of the opening kick-off in the Holy Cross game literally gave the contest to the Big Green, while if he hadn't been caught from behind in the Columbia clash after a 68-yard sprint, that fracas might have ended in a tie. In the epic battle with Yale last Saturday this great ground-gainer piled up more yards than any other back in the game, not excluding Albie Booth, and pulled off some remarkably...