Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Tomlinson rails at high taxes, showers his contempt on movies and movie palaces. Old globetrotter that he is, he is intolerably pained by the whole wearisome modern business of passports and visas: "In 1910 I arrived, for the first time, at a shore of the United States. I had no papers and hardly any money. So what happened when I met Authority? I did not meet the august thing. I went down the gangway with my bag, quite openly, and took a tram into the city. That was all. Nor did it strike me as odd. From there...
...That night the British harbor pilot, Harry Leslie, had dinner with cheery, gold-toothed Captain Jan Cwiklinski in his two-room suite below the bridge. But when Leslie went back on board two weeks later, the captain was missing. "The officers gave me to understand he was sick on shore," he said, "but . . . there was a studied avoidance of any mention...
...those days, he says. Algeria had a humid tropical climate like modern Central Africa. The dry hillside where the bones were hidden was a lake shore then, swarming with large and dangerous animals. Among them slunk the weak humanoids, armed with the first of the weapons that man had created. Perhaps they killed a few of the animals. Perhaps, like hyenas, they scavenged the kills of the powerful carnivora, using their fist-axes to crack the bones for the marrow inside...
...crew: "An assistant editor of Yacht ing magazine covering the championship race." Like other staffers, Managing Editor William H. Taylor, the only sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize (for his yachting articles in the New York Herald Tribune in 1935), crews as often as he watches from the shore. But he sometimes longs for the days when "we are lucky enough to go on a cruise where we don't have to do anything...
...after toiling as a steamboat wiper, a strikebreaker, a manufacturer's agent and a bond salesman, he switched to real estate and finally reached Nevada with a grandiose scheme, later carried out at a profit of almost half a million dollars, to peddle practically the whole eastern shore of Lake Tahoe. Nevada, at the moment, was in bad shape. Its big ranches were almost all in the hands of the banks, the cattle market had collapsed, and business was in depression. Biltz gazed on the state and its one-horse political system and saw opportunity...