Word: marylanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those things." This cryptic comment was no rebuttal. Neither the State Department nor the President showed an inclination to deny the report. Having already finished his job as chairman of the Maritime Commission (TIME, Nov. 22), Joe Kennedy gave a farewell party to his staff at his Maryland mansion, and set off for a fortnight's holiday at Palm Beach in the manner of a man getting ready to tackle...
...from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall and the stagecoach driver, John Frederick Herring, favorite of George IV and Queen Victoria. Fox-hunting gentry from nearby Virginia and Maryland also found pleasure in a handful of pictures by modern sporting artists...
...Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round his 700 acres of Maryland marshland in hip boots, counting muskrat houses to see how large his next year's catch would be. But last week impatient Walter Gibbs decided to take this year's muskrat census by airplane, an innovation. He counted 4,000 muskrat huts, estimated they had 20,000 tenants...
...Delaware Bays and whose pelts bring $2. With the money he got for his trap factory Mr. Gibbs promptly bought 3,000 acres of muskrat marsh on Currituck Sound, N. C., began transferring his black muskrats south. More than half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped off to breed in North Carolina. Since then he has been busy dredging canals and ditches so his muskrats can swim deep in winter and grub for roots underneath the ice, using the mud to build up the banks so there will be plenty of slick slopes...
...Century dramas as Zaza, Madame du Barry, Andrea; of heart trouble and pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. Redhaired, green-eyed, emotional, Caroline Louise Dudley Carter, already 28 and divorced when Belasco gave her her first part in 1890, attained first & overnight fame five years later in The Heart of Maryland, in whose most spectacular scene she gripped the clapper of a huge bell 30 ft. above the stage, swung her body back & forth to mute its tones, saved her doomed lover's life...