Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert L&233;vitt was again a public official by the next year, when President Roosevelt sent him to the remote Virgin Islands as a judge. When he mounted the bench Mr. L&233;vitt told native judges who led lonely lives, not to mind if he appeared snobbish. Judge L&233;vitt was soon trying to subpoena Acting Governor Robert Herrick. After that he angrily charged Provisional Governor Lawrence W. Cramer with interference in the court, wrote out his resignation. Frustrated but undaunted, Mr. L&233;vitt returned to the U. S. and his old job in the Department...
...Homer Cummings had by no means been stung for the last time by Gadfly L&233;vitt. Last January, restless as ever, Mr. Cummings' special assistant slipped into a Senate Committee hearing to oppose unsuccessfully the permanent appointment of Governor Cramer, ask an investigation in the Virgin Islands. Said Mr. Cummings: "I can sum up my attitude in three words: I am disgusted...
...bird. Of the pheasant family, it was feathered in metallic blacks, blues, greens, reds, had a long pink neck, small head, a curious, strawlike tuft protruding from its forehead. He named it "Congo Peacock,'' soon learned it was fairly common, traveled in pairs, but lived only in virgin jungle. Last week Dr. Chapin arrived back at his Manhattan office, and with satisfaction seasoned by 24 years of anticipation spread out on a table the first six Congo Peacocks ever to be identified and stuffed...
...John Steinbeck first editions, bibliophiles must turn to the classic rise in the price of calves' liver, once given away in most butcher shops, currently selling at 85? a Ib. Distributed free to Publisher Covici-Friede's friends last Christmas, Author Steinbeck's St. Katy the Virgin, a short story, is now quoted at $10. Published last fortnight in an edition limited to 699 autographed, de luxe copies, Novelist Steinbeck's latest work, The Red Pony, was quoted at $10 a copy, and no man knew where it would go from there...
...Subtract the time-consuming possibilities from New England females and you'll throw a large mass of very questionable produce on the market. Take eyeglasses from a virgin about here, and what are you going to do with the remainder...