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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay with his Aunts Adelaide and Emily, small Compton Mackenzie first came in 1887, Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year. That date he remembers less because of public celebrations than because of The Street's ancient crossing sweeper who one day startled the neighborhood by suddenly shouting, "God save our gracious Queen," and forthwith standing. perched on a pile of gutter sweepings, on his head. He was not the only topsy-turvy thing about The Street. Its houses were all on one side and all their numbers, from 1 to 25, were odd. This gave Mr. Lockett, the grandiose...
...Abington, Pa., Browder Benningfield charged that Catherine Cairns "had destroyed the peace of the neighborhood ... and that verbal attacks from her had made life miserable for the residents. Her actions made life miserable during the night as well as during the day. for she did not cease even when darkness came." Catherine Cairns was arrested as a common scold, clapped in jail to mend her talk...
...outstanding case comes to mind. A well-known lumber company on the Pacific Coast within the past six years purchased from the Government at a total cost of approximately $400,000, and under easy credit terms, a fleet of eight vessels estimated to have cost the Government in the neighborhood of $8,000,000. These ships are now engaged from the Pacific Northwest and California via the Panama Canal to Porto Rico and Buenos Aires, principally for the purpose of marketing lumber. This firm was thus granted distinct monopolistic privileges by the Government in the marketing of lumber in Porto...
This spring amazing accounts began reaching the U. S. from Mr. Wees describing the miseries which he encountered in a neighborhood about 700 mi. west of Rio de Janeiro and 700 mi. north of Buenos Aires: "We spent days and nights hunting and when we shot nothing we were hungry in a forest of game. Braised alligator tail tastes like flaked codfish. Here spider webs enmesh birds. Ants drive us from our hammocks into a circle of ashes. The hordes of insects for which the region does not provide a living cause us night after night of sleeplessness. One especially...
...little boy named David "talked" with all the dogs in his neighborhood, confused their masters by duplicating their individual barkings. From such data Dr. Hrdlicka surmises that "the proficiency with which some primitive people can call and understand wild animals may be a survival of this identification period rather than an entirely acquired...