Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There also was a Norwegian sailor named Nuggerud. No nature lover, he earned a frugal living fishing off the Galapagos and sailing his odorous cargoes back to the mainland...
...friends soon became the talk of the islands. Her favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled revolver. She liked to wound animals, then nurse them back to health. To visiting Astors and Vanderbilts she was hospitality itself but terrified fishermen from the mainland were imprisoned overnight or chased away at the pistol point. One shipwrecked honeymoon couple from Chile was sent to sea in an open boat, and there were other strange developments. With the changing seasons, the baroness' fancy also changed to Robert Philippson while Lorenz was reduced to a sort of super...
Moreover, it was reported the U. S. delegation would not consider a non-aggression pact now, unless it included the Asiatic mainland, notably China--and Washington was said to believe the Nine-Power Treaty covers that issue adequately, if fulfilled...
Last week, to make his telephones really popular, he recklessly reduced telephone rates on the British mainland to all-time lows. The daytime price for a call from Penzance in Cornwall to Thurso in northeastern Scotland, a distance of nearly 1,000 miles, will be four shillings ($1). The top price after 7 p. m. anywhere on the mainland will be one shilling. In the U. S. the cheapest comparable rate for the same distance (New York-Chicago) is $1.80. Estimated loss of British revenue the first year: ?500,000. By that time, Sir Kingsley figures, Britons will be "telephone...
...small canal. Shylock's miserly squawkings came from a bridge still decorated by the arms of the Venetian Republic. Gratiano cruised about the canal in a medieval gondola. A garden wall of one of the tenements was transformed into the avenue to Portia's house on the mainland...