Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwestern corners. But the Northwest Corner, as everyone knows, was first occupied by Paul Bunyan, the great logger. He went there to get milk of the Western whale to cure the mysterious illness of Babe, his blue ox. Puget Sound is the grave he dug for Babe when he thought the ox would die, and Washington's Cascade Mountains are the dirt Paul and his loggers heaved up in their digging...
...There was nothing political in what I said, nor were any political implications intended," Mr. Williams wrote to the Committee last week. To newsmen he explained he had thought he was talking off-the-record. He added: "I think I would be a very queer duck if I did not do this sort of thing...
Some laid it to talk of dollar devaluation. Others thought it was foreign buying inspired by better news from Spain. Still others credited it to the beginning of new pump-priming. A few thought shorts were spurred to hasty covering by the Stock Exchange decision to publish precise figures of short interest in each stock. Inventors of explanations had full scope for their talents. For last week something hit the Stock Exchange with an elevating power like that of a volcano erupting beneath it. In the entire previous week only 1,700,000 shares had been traded, smallest full week...
...sulked in retirement because he was jealous of Mont Blanc. Spoiled by her father, owner of Covent Garden theatre, Fanny was so high-spirited that at her French boarding school the only punishment that could subdue her was seeing a guillotining. Until she was 19 the Kembles had no thought of making an actress of her. Then, as a last resort to save Covent Garden from bankruptcy, her father drafted her to play Juliet. With only three weeks' rehearsal in the part, she became an overnight rage, paid off Covent Garden's ?11,000 debt in a year...
...fame, she quit the stage to marry the heir to a large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath him. When Fanny published her U. S. travel impressions, which made a scandalous success, her in-laws' opinion was echoed even...