Word: newfoundlands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Postmaster General Farley: Jim has about the guile and predatory instinct of a big, honest, lumbering and friendly Newfoundland . . . the only "patronage" in either jobs or works which Jim is permitted to pass to the faithful is what is left after the starry-eyed socialicians, the crystal-gazing professors and the "liberal" monopolists of honesty get through passing the pie to the objects of their fondness, favor or philanthropy...
Founder Fairbridge had planned other schools?in Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Rhodesia. To start a Canadian school on Vancouver Island, the Prince of Wales last year donated £1,000 and other sponsors swelled the fund to £70,000. Last week in Montreal landed the first batch of Canadian Fairbridgians, 27 boys, 14 girls, averaging ten years of age. Most of them came from around Newcastle. Solicitous Canadians found them a spruce and keen-eyed but impish lot who raced up & down the deck of their steamer, yelling, pulling one another's hair, tormenting their three chaperones...
...Westley, Irene Dunne, as the Russian princess, sings "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes;" Ginger Rogers, a Terre Haute Lyda Robert, sings "I'II Be hard to Handle," but Jerome Kern fans will miss "The Touch of Your Hand." Randy Scott, out of the Westerns, makes a fine all-American Newfoundland dog, and Claire Dorr gives another good characterization of all that is base in woman kind. A Mr. Astaire does some excellent dance numbers...
Contrary to general belief the Auk was not an Arctic bird. It bred and lived in Iceland and on the islands off Newfoundland where French fishermen were responsible for its extinction. Auk hunting was simplicity itself. A gangplank was laid from a fishing boat to a rock on shore. Inquisitive Auks waddled painfully aboard, were knocked on the head and dumped in the hold...
...traced of these dead babies "can be traced beginning in Colorado, passing through Kansas, spreading to include the Great Lakes region and ending in New England, where Vermont presents the highest rate. When we proceed north beyond the regions of cyclones and to a maritime type of climate, Newfoundland for instance, the rate drops." Southern States where the climate is equable, have a negligible number of malformation births...