Word: sealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accounts confirm Princess Alice's impression that it was she, not her mother, who christened the Meteor. In dark blue velvet, large picture hat, sable boa and muff, with a black ribbon inscribed "Yacht Meteor" in gold on her left sleeve, she firmly seized a bottle of White Seal champagne (in silver net to catch glass splinters), swatted it cleanly against the ship's side and with a little silver hatchet chopped, in one chop, the heading cord. Prince Henry cabled to his imperial brother: "The yacht christened by the hand of Miss Roosevelt just launched...
...Economically, the land north of the Arctic circle has been of vast importance for the last 200 years. Such commodities as furs, fish, whale oil, seal oil, eiderdown, and ivory have been exported for our use and profit. For example, the Hudson Bay Company, one of the oldest trading concerns in the world, has taken out millions of dollars in the fur trade. The cryolite mines in southern Greenland are the world's only source of that ore, which is used in the manufacture of aluminum. It is hard to estimate the value of the whale oil that has been...
...function of the new Administration (see p. 7). All official Washington was there, shaking hands, expanding under Mrs. Roosevelt's informal hospitality. Fat little Maxim Litvinoff grinned his toothless grin oftener than usual. He was going upstairs with the President afterward to receive the papers which would formally seal the recognition of Soviet Russia...
...seen in Eskimo-lust, murder, polygamy. Mala makes the mistake of lending his wife to a Nordic fur-trader who gets her tipsy, rapes her and then allows her to shuffle off across the snow where his assistant shoots her under the pardonable delusion that she is a seal. For harpooning the fur-trader Mala becomes fair prey for two members of the Canadian Mounted Police. They inveigle him to their outpost by treacherous subterfuges. Mala breaks out of their handcuffs, starts home to the two new wives a friend has lent him, eating the members of his dog team...
...lips. All good Edwardians will applaud his taste. Author Maurois gives it as his considered opinion that Edward VII was a gentleman, Wilhelm II a bounder. As a sympathetic exhibition of the English pre-War generation The Edwardian Era should be hard to top; it might almost bear that seal so dear to the fronts of better-class London shops: "By Appointment to H. M. the King...