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Old Wives' Tale. In East Liverpool, Ohio, after he had been fined $50 and costs for blacking the eye of his estranged wife, Clarence Cobb complained to the judge: "She knew I was a coon hunter and a drinker before we were married, and she never said a word...
Cast a Cold Eye. English literature owes a debt to wounded snobbery. Dickens never forgot the humiliation of working in a blacking warehouse; Trollope, of going to school in tattered trousers; Shaw, the comedown of being shifted from a "rich" to a "poor" school. Much of the greatness of these...
State authorities yesterday added the name of author James T. Farrell to their ever-growing blacking for booksellers locally known as the "Boston Police List."
In Texas river bottoms the sweet gum trees were tinged with yellow. At night, deer jumped the wire fences to nibble at the heavy-headed sorghum. The rivers ran low and clear, and yellow cats, black bass, carp and perch sailed lazily in their depths, too fat to bother with...
The backs had a good day, as the team racked up 14 first downs. Dick Clasby scored the second touchdown on a 47-yard run in the last quarter. Trappedbehind his own line, Clasby took advantage of good blacking to break out into the open. He outraced the secondary, straight...