[Ads-l] It's Time to Outdoor Dine in the Hudson Valley!
George Thompson
george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Mon May 16 13:36:56 UTC 2022
Headline of an email from a magazine promoting Hudson River Valley
businesses and real estate.
GAT
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.
But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems. Boston, 1827, p. 112
The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool. (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851
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