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...facts he had none. He quoted Jesus Christ, Pontius Pilate, Byron, Bryan and a man named Bugg. He told funny stories (the widow at her husband's funeral who was so surprised at the preacher's eulogy that she sent her son up to look into the coffin to see if the dead man really was his "paw"); sad stories (the stepson who received a pair of brogans at Christmas while the other children got fine shoes and then complained that they hurt him not in the feet but in the heart). He treated the Senate...
...Gordon Bennett and others. High-speed color printing for newspapers is Mr. Wood's chief interest and in it he will recognize only one rival, the Claybourn Press (used by the Pittsburgh Press). Another big developer of color presses has been C. B. Cottrell & Sons. Its founder, Calvert Byron Cottrell, was an inventor of many devices used in modern printing and his son, Charles P. Cottrell, who died last week at the age of 74, developed the magazine rotary press and also the multi-colored rotary perfecting press which prints four colors on one side of the paper...
Newshawks swooped upon the Harmony Truth Centre, found Citizen Smart jovial and garrulous in his defiance of the law. He put on an old Army uniform posed by his Hoover fence. He revealed the books which the Smarts will soon read: Pilgrim's Progress, Emerson, Byron Shelley, What a Young Man Should Know What a Young Woman Should Know...
...inestimable value to History. Dr. Johnson might be summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...
...them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what use is hunting except to exercise the hound?" There lies Mr. Maurois's purpose. That is why he likes Kipling. Carnehan and Dravot have made Disraeli and Byron live again...