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...Cockadoodleodoodle!" After the "unfortunate blight," Thackeray began writing art criticism. His nom de plume, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, became a feared and hated name among Britain's painters. Even when he had become a novelist and was rolling in royalties ("?10,000 - Cock-adoodleodoodle"), he was still "bitten with my old mania...
...little x's) made him restless, drove him and his sketchbook on continuous travels, from "Foggopolis" (his name for London) to the Continent, to the Near East, and finally to making "Delhineations of Delhicate" Delhi. He was constantly seasick, was pelted with sticks & stones by irate Albanians, was bitten by "a centipede of some horror" in Greece, lived "on rugs and ate with gypsies . . . and performed frightful discrepancies for 8 days" in the Balkans. Like most Englishmen abroad, he grumbled continually. The Bosporus was "the ghastliest humbug going," Corfu was a "tittletattle, piggy-wiggy island," and Venice was filled...
...treatment" at Fort Reno, in Oklahoma. They will sail from New Orleans in September. Since mountainous Greece is not like flat Oklahoma, the mules may find it hard going at first. But at least there will be no language difficulty, for these mules will have U.S. skinners: 50 hard-bitten G.I.s...
...place where printers throw broken type. These 26 stories by John O'Hara (an Old Newspaperman himself) have the neat and durable ring of O'Hara's best writing. They also have O'Hara's special effect of making the reader feel he has bitten something brassy. To O'Hara's hopeful admirers the stories may look like 26 more notes for the novel they think he ought to write-and, from that point of view, wasted sticks of type...
...ticks carry fevers. Scientists estimate that only one in a hundred is infectious. But victims cannot tell which kind of tick has bitten them until they are on the way to the hospital...