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Veined with gentle ribaldry and stocked with bizarre supporting characters, The Duke of Gallodoro is a fictional lighter-than-air craft. Except for some overtalky bits, it offers some of the choicest summer reading of the winter...
When you get inside and start looking at details the superiority of the old car becomes apparent. Although many of the choicest specimens to be seen around the university lack a self-starter, it must be admitted that this device has its merits. However, the simplified dashboard of a modern car can only excite a feeling of contempt in the mind of a true old car fancier...
...only what it will eat. Its attacks are always made from open sky, and what it does not kill with the first attack, it seldom bothers to pursue. The late Gerald H. Thayer once admiringly described the peregrine falcon as a "powerful, wild, majestic, independent bird, living on the choicest of clean carnal food plucked fresh from the air or the surface of the waters; rearing its young in the nooks of dangerous mountain cliffs ... It is the very embodiment of noble rapacity and lonely freedom...
...dime novel, was created in his mental image, and a great publishing industry was built to produce it. At the head of the industry during the early years stood the house of Beadle and Adams. The history of that house and its publications is the year's choicest chunk of offbeat Americana, a huge, cheerful corpse from the literary morgue...
...best. Turning his back on the explorers, he built an igloo nearby and settled down with his family for a sleep-only to be awakened shortly afterward by an uninvited anthropologist. While the "lemming-faced" white intruder busily sketched everything in sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed hodgepodge of caribou eyes, ptarmigan dung, auk slime and fermented bear brain," which the visitor rudely refused. Then wife Asiak had a happy idea: "Maybe he is not hungry. Maybe he just wants to laugh with a worthless woman." Beamed Ernenek: "Make yourself beautiful...