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...worst journey" Author Cherry-Garrard tells about was not Scott's fatal march, but a trip taken by himself and two others in search of eggs of the Emperor Penguin. It required five weeks of fearful hardship; when their tent blew away in a gale they thought they would die, almost gave up hope. But they got three eggs, brought them back safe and sound. Blurbs Playwright George Bernard Shaw: ". . . a very horrible experience. Compared with it Amundsen's victorious rush to the South Pole seems as cheerful as a trip to Margate...
...have been putting [seal] blubber under our boilers, and our success has been amazing. And now we are going to make a trial with penguin carcasses. . . . There will be no scarcity of raw material...
...around the Norvegia were herds of seal, flocks of penguin. Unaccustomed to man and hence unafraid of him, they afforded the Norvegia's gunners easy, close-range targets. It was no trick to pile the deck with dead creatures...
Died. Mme Emma La Prevotte France, 45, relict of famed French Author Anatole France (The Red Lily, Penguin Island, The Revolt of the Angels); at Paris. They were married when...
...this Canada, or Paradise? . . . Oh, my friends. . . . Ah, my brothers. . . ." He kept it up all week, did James Ramsay MacDonald. Canadians, pleased, flattered, responded with such hospitable fervor that at last the Prime Minister of Great Britain mock-seriously cried: "Your kindness has been like that of the penguin, which stifles its young on account of its maternal love. I put in a plea . . . that your feasting may be restricted . . . tempered by charity to the delighted victim of your generosity." As he prepared to sail from Quebec, to reach London as near as possible to the opening date of Parliament...