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...partial glossary of terms with which First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett will no longer have to cope: beats-mail needing re-addressing or "unknown" bumper-2nd to 4th class cancelling stamp burns-damaged tie sacks clock ("on the" and "off the")-On or off duty decoy-matter mailed to catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin...
...five parked automobiles and scamper up an alley; to observe the five automobiles ?two on one side of the street, three on the other?start coasting down the hill. One nimble pedestrian leaped into a car coasting backwards, braked it, stopped two of the other cars with the bumper while other bystanders pushed from behind. The two cars facing downhill, bumping against the curb were delayed sufficiently for saviors to control them. Men bawling 'Thieves! Thieves! Stop there! Thieves!" chased after the urchins. None were caught...
...brilliantly depicted, the eccentrics are so clumsily drawn that Dorinda, had she been a reader of the book instead of a character in it, would have been sure that they were not real. Yet Elizabeth Jordan is far from inept. Occasionally there are breezy paragraphs, her minor figures live, Bumper Product...
...dimensional talking cinema could reproduce folk-life no more fully nor could any director efface himself as completely as Mrs. Peterkin to let a rich stream of life take its own way through playful eddies and deep pools. Black April is a full size product, as authentic as a bumper cotton crop. The Author. Her birthday was Halloween, 1880. Her mother died and she was reared by an oldtime Negro "mauma." Her name, Julia Mood, was near the top of the class of 1896 at Converse College
...vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against the bumper, where the four frosted eyes of the car glare at the daylight. Inside the steel shell was a boudoir of swansdown upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than the Nile at twilight, and above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little...