Word: packets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after publication of Jude the Obscure, Hardy received a letter containing a packet of ashes labeled by an irate reader as the remains of Author Hardy's "iniquitous novel." After the appearance of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, he was sent hundreds of letters from women of Tess-like experience or inclinations, asking advice or justification of their caprices. These letters Hardy ignored as rigorously as he refused to see newspaper interviewers...
Last spring Skipper Wheeler of the river packet Casca made a strange etching on the frozen surface of Lake La Berge, Yukon. With an old broom and buckets of refuse oil mixed with lampblack he drew a line 40 ft. wide across a 29-mi. stretch of the lake's surface...
Exhibit A is a series of perfect simulations of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank $100 note of 1914, bearing the portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Last November the old and reputable Berlin banking firm of Sass & Martini, established in 1842, sent over a packet containing $6,000 of these bills in the course of ordinary business with the Deutsche Bank. That impeccable institution passed them on to the National City Bank of New York. Since the Federal Reserve some time ago decided to withdraw the 1914 series of $100 notes from circulation, the National City passed...
...that last year sent two councilmen to the penitentiary. Furthermore, he was dictatorial, unharmonious. Where the charges came from, councilmen said they did not know. A messenger had brought them from outside. Alert newsmen noted that the messenger was a Maschke minion, had left the Maschke office with a packet just before his arrival at City Hall...