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Swedish Snaps. The polar bears in Stockholm's Scansen have not had their full rations of raw meat for three years. Neither have the Swedes had their sill & snaps (herring & aquavit) as often as before. They have managed to maintain their national Thursday evening meal of pea soup and pancakes-and they have managed to stay...
...gallerygoers the art of Marc Chagall has always been a good deal of a riddle. The puzzle began when Painter Chagall rushed from St. Petersburg to Paris with a canvas showing a decapitated milkmaid floating in an emetic sky while a pink cow was suckled by a pair of pea-green apes on a Russian rooftop. Paris was baffled. Even the Left Bank was slow to understand that Painter Chagall's graphic defiance of the laws of physics and biology was the work of a deeply religious, idealistic young Jew who was merely recreating from his imagination the folk...
...pea-green paneled room at 10 Aurangzeb Road, Delhi, Jinnah this week criticized Churchill's speech as misleading, urged an immediate "provisional composite government...
Joseph Stalin stands behind a paper-littered work table. He is smoking a pipe and wears the rough clothes of a peasant soldier. Enter Prime Minister Winston Churchill, followed by Special U.S. Envoy William Christian Bullitt. Churchill is wearing a seagoing cap and a short pea jacket; he is puffing on a long cigar. Bullitt is wearing grey striped trousers and cutaway coat with a dark red carnation in the buttonhole...
Oroya fever of the highland Andes, apparently caused by nocturnal, blood sucking flies (phlebotomi). The first phase of the disease is a raging fever, highly in fectious, usually fatal; the second, an eruption of pea-like warts on knees, elbows, face. For this menace there is no known prevention, no known cure...