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...Bedford, and the harbor looked cold and grey to him as he crossed over the bridge to Fairhaven and pulled through winding slum streets to the yacht yard. The yard looked mournful, too: several fishermen from Nantucket, old home of the whalers, were tied up at the quay making repairs before going out onto winter waters, while many a boat that he knew under clouds of white canvas he hardly recognized as they lay all bare of rigging, nestled together in cradles under a tin shed, as if in hibernation...
...collection consists of the 36 pieces of Chamber Music, first published in 1907. In this sequence of lyrics 25-year-old Joyce gave his version of love's old sweet song. Among apple trees and amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting...
After noting the lack of discipline and direction which marked the Republican campaign of 1936, Master Mind Michelson pronounced: 'The party, in my opinion, needs a Mark Hanna, or a Matt Quay." First declaring that he does not know Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton well enough to surmise whether he has the requisite "iron in his soul'' to ride roughshod over the wishes of this or that segment of his followers, Mr. Michelson indicated his opinion by suggesting another candidate: Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. "He is a vigorous...
...voyage down the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich, famed for fried whitebait and the o° meridian. Queen Elizabeth wore fawn, King George the tight tail coat of an Admiral of the Fleet. Ocean liners, tramps and tugs were aflutter with bunting, and crowds stood six deep along the quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last week used a 300-h.p. green motor launch (later to serve as Admiral's barge for Admiral Sir Edward Evans...
...half slipped by, at the end of which he received the appointment of Comptroller of Customs on wools, hides, and woll-fells in the port of London. By grant of the mayor and aldermen he occupied an entire dwelling on top of Aldsgate, ten minutes' walk from the quay known as Wool wharf where he worked over dull figures in heavy ledgers. Here at the eastern edge of turbulent little London, high over a busy street, and above his modestly-stocked buttery, the poet passed another decade--reading, writing, and drinking from the King's daily pitcher of wine. Only...