For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this—and rightly ascribed it—to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.

The government is run by business illiterates.

Now along comes the great Tallulah Bankhead in Eugenia—now playing at the Plymouth—be-furbelowed, be-caped, be-frilled to the nines, or even tens.

Her mental health is really affected by stressful environments.