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...must be understood, she wrote in old age, "that my collection of Indian pictures was not done in a comfortable studio. You have got to go out and wrestle with the elements, with all your senses alert . . . You have got to hold your nose against the smell of rotten fish, and you've got to have the creeps. You must learn to feel the pride of the Indian in his ancestors, and the pinch of the cold, raw damp of the West Coast, and the smell and flavor of the wood smoke, and the sting of it in your...
...behavior interested the colonel; ten years before. Ali had resigned his commission, saying that "the army is rotten through and through"; since then he had held influential, behind-the-scenes jobs in the Red Tudeh Party. In 1946, Ali was liaison man in Teheran for the short-lived Azerbaijan Soviet republic. Knowing all this, Colonel Sepahpur was suddenly curious to know the contents of Ali's worn suitcase. The colonel grabbed and hefted it. "This suitcase seems very heavy for a sick man to carry," the colonel grunted...
...sight of good plan, they turn to rotten again...
...rotten they dress in flummery...
...almost from the start. It was true that the can tankerous Gustavus Hinrichs of Copenhagen, dismissed as head of the School of Science because of his "hasty, angry conduct," caused a major scandal by bombarding the legislature with pamphlets attacking the university (Corruption in the University of Darkest America, Rotten to the Core, Stop That Leak!). But S.U.I. survived. Historian Benjamin Shambaugh helped make the entire state history-conscious; Paleontologist Samuel Calvin became the ranking U.S. authority on the Pleistocene age of North America; bearded Thomas H. Macbride became the "Father of Iowa Conservation"; and Geologist Bohumil Shimek won international...