Word: vincente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park, Fla., far from where that tormented artist ever thought of traveling. Last week two more neglected literary treasures made their appearance. Both were of modest historical significance, both made interesting reading, both dealt with the troubles of seamen...
...well-written book, beautifully Dound and illustrated in its present edition, it tells the story of a sailor who was born near Edinburgh in 1755, sailed to Canada, the West Indies, the South Seas, was pressed into service in 1794 and took part in the battles of Cape St. Vincent and Aboukir Bay. Writing vividly and unconventionally of South Sea natives, of historic battles as they appeared from the powder magazine, John Nicol reaches his highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives...
WATERFRONT CLUB--Joe Kent and his five troubadors are the latest rave in Vincent Club circles. The intriguing murals are vaguely reminiscent of Gloucester, England. The lobster thermidor is delicious. A very snappy floor show has been imported from Paris. Lot Mr. Cruso reserve you a tabic...
Rich and stupid Lala Palooza set out vigorously to please all lovers of oldtime funnypaper slapstick. She started her comic career by consulting Professor Zeero, a turbaned faker, who advised her to marry an impostor named Senor Gonzales. When Lala Palooza's lazy brother, Vincent Doolittle, opposed the match he was thrown through a door by Hives, his sister's supercilious chauffeur. Thrilled to her deep core, Lala Palooza accepted Gonzales and this week, in the course of reducing to please him, she blacks both Professor Zeero's eyes with a dumbbell, drops heavy weights on Brother...
...recipients are Ralph B. Murphy '39, of New Albany, Indiana; William M. Murphy '38, of Flushing, N. Y.; John S. Murphy '40, of Fulton, Ky; and Vincent L. Murphy '40, of New York City...