Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virgin Islands are governed by the Navy Department. Present Governor is Captain Waldo Evans, U. S. N. retired, who distinguished himself while Wartime commander of the U. S. S. New Orleans and St. Louis by transporting and escorting troops and supplies to Europe. He is round-faced, square-shouldered, out spoken. Virgin Islanders like him. A month ago he wanted some livestock for his dominion. Last week some of the cor respondence which occurred during the transaction was made known. Said the Governor of the Virgin Islands to the Chief of Naval Operations : WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE...
...VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY-- D. H. Lawrence (Knopf...
...this transfer reached last week and held a daily average of $1,000,000, climaxed a steady drain upon the life blood of London's famed "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" which has been going on for months.* To be sure the Old Lady has received transfusions of virgin gold from South Africa; but last week her gold reserve was down to $794,000,000 while that of the Bank of France had mounted to the staggering total...
...VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY?D. H. Lawrence?Knopf...
Elizabeth The Queen is a sabre-rattling, pompous historical pageant which relates Maxwell Anderson's idea of the love of the Virgin Queen for the Earl of Essex. Author Lytton Strachey's notion to the contrary, Mr. Anderson's Elizabeth (Lynn Fontanne) and Essex (Alfred Lunt) are heroic amorists whose sturdy devotion is thwarted only because they love power more. To indicate her robustness Mrs. Lunt feels called upon to pitch her usually pleasant voice very deep in her throat and to speak her lines as loudly as possible, the effect of which is not unlike...