Word: westerly
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Died. Dr. Edward Alexander Wester-marck, 76, Finnish sociologist, a bachelor who was a world-famed authority on marriage ; in Lapinlahti, Finland. No medieval moralist, Dr. Westermarck championed the single standard for marriage, tilted against companionate marriage, polygamy, adultery, homosexuality. His concluding sentence in the first editions of The History of Human Marriage won him honorary vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization...
Many times the writer has stood in the wing of the bridge with his oilskins drawn tightly about him, held securely by a "body and soul" lashing, his so'wester pulled down over his eyes while the rain beat an incessant tattoo upon his face patiently waiting for eight bells to strike so that in the quiet seclusion of his room, he could have a pleasant social visit with Mark Twain, Kenneth Roberts or a glance at TIME or FORTUNE before he turned over to sleep. All this, of course, while the gale raged and howled outside his comfortable...
Wild ducks trap best on nights when a cold nor'wester blows. On two such nights Orin D. Steele, Federal Game Management Agent, and his deputy wardens lay shivering for hours in a marsh off Virginia's Eastern Shore, waiting for Trapper Tom Reed. Each night Reed approached, fled without touching his traps. At last Agent Steele realized that the trapper was warned by the absence of duck, which, once flushed by the wardens, returned no more that night. On Dec. 20, 1934, in daylight, the agent and two deputies rose up from the marsh, surprised Tom Reed...
Monstrous headseas washed roaring against the S. S. Manhattan off the Grand Banks, one evening last week. Overhead howled an 85-mi. nor'wester. Only three passengers were hardy enough to be aboveboard. One was Queena Mario, small, vivacious soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Another was her pet marmoset, Vibrato. The third was a Mrs. Florence Garson of Staten Island...
Died, Baron Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss Wester Wemyss, 69, onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...