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Dogs and Dictionaries. Born (1709) "half-dead," infected with scrofula that almost ruined his eyes and disfigured him for life, Britain's future literary bull of Bashan was raised in the cathedral town of Lichfield, where his father was an impecunious bookseller. Moody, sensitive, strongwilled, young Sam was bitterly ashamed of his parents' struggle to make both ends meet. "Poor people's children," he insisted later, "never respect [their parents]: I did not respect my own mother, though I loved her: and one day, when in anger she called me a puppy, I asked if she knew what they called...
...bomb crater. He has spent a great part of his years holding his tongue. Henderson is a great babbler who wakes up sounding his "A" and holds it all day, roaring through his work in a rich torrent of cuss words, grunts and bellows, like a bull of Bashan...
...asserting that Robert Wadlow exceeds all giants in Medical History, Dr. Humberd escapes giving a direct lie to the Bible (Goliath, 9 ft. 9 in. ; KingOg of Bashan, 9 ft.) ; to Roman Pliny (who reported that an Arabian giant brought to Rome was 9 ft. 9 in. tall) ; to Jewish Josephus and Roman Vitellius (both reported a Jew named Eleazar...
...Marchesa's book belongs to the class of literature in which one finds Mrs. Virginia Woolf's "Flush" and Thomas Mann's "Bashan and I," attempts of highly sophisticated writers to plumb the depths of child or animal minds and to reconstruct the experience of events witnessed by such minds...
...Examiner assigned her to a children's playground party. There she met a "tall, handsome, well-groomed young man" who helped her quiet a howling moppet. Back in the office she met the tall young man again, answered brusquely when he asked: "What became of the Bull of Bashan?" She then learned that the tall young man was her boss, William Randolph Hearst, who had lately bought "that new paper on Montgomery Street." Since then she has never been brusque with...