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Although they sent home a fortune in furs, the colonists were repaid largely with official indifference and hostility. "It is for traders to traffic where they please," pronounced the Empress Catherine. "I will furnish no men, ships, or money." Not until 1810, nearly 70 years after Russian eyes first beheld America, did a ship from the imperial navy enter New Archangel harbor, and then only with mischief in mind. Its captain, one Vasilii Golovnin, coveted the lucrative colony, which was in the hands of businessmen. In time, the navy pulled its rank and took control. Aleksandr Baranov, resident manager...
Clyppan & Hit. But even the most casual reader can be repaid by Hogben's excursion through the history, and past the astonishing universality, of the mother tongue. It may be enough just to discover why, from some hillbilly throats, it escapes as hit-that was how the English said it in Chaucer's time. Or that the perfectly good Anglo-Saxon verb clyppan yielded to a Norman import (embracen) and survives in English today only in the humble paper clip...
...suspending financial aid. Nasser was unimpressed. He summoned German Ambassador Georg Federer, called the Israeli arms deal "most degrading" and "disgusting," and declared: "We have received no aid from West Germany. You have taken part in some industrial projects, and we pay their costs in full. We have already repaid the larger part at 6% interest. Do you call this...
Small-Timer. Only on Broadway did he find characters with a cynicism to match his own. They told him where the bodies were buried, and he repaid their trust by miscasting them in solid-citizen roles. Assigned by Hearst to an anti-rackets crusade in 1933, Runyon led off with the charge that the Administration of President Harding was "the most brazen display of racketeering in our times." His story went on to tick off other notable racketeers-"after the bankers come the Wall Streeters"-before arriving at Al Capone, who was charitably described as "a small-timer." Biographer Hoyt...
...Robert Frost Library at Amherst College: "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." The poets have now repaid the compliment. Not since Lincoln's assassination has an American's death inspired so much poetry, the best of which has been collected in this volume. Established poets-W. H. Auden, Richard Eberhart, John Berryman, among others-lent their usual talent; lesser-known poets rose to more than usual...