Word: colophon
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...frock coats gathered to unveil a tablet in memory of the man who used to live in the vanished brownstone edifice - Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, "the famous infidel." Onetime Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, Actress Julia Marlowe, Poet Edgar Lee Masters, made speeches, and those who read the proud colophon upon the tablet and listened to the eloquence of Col. Ingersoll's admirers, reflected how, 40 years ago, the State of Delaware had offered him an entertainment on its whipping block, and how the bitter attacks of his many enemies filled the newspapers...
...words annoy me greatly in your issue of Sept. 7, Page 10, centre column: "Incarnadined" is too long and fancy a word for such a plain paragraph. On the same page "grooved only with the austere colophon." You are reading the dictionary too much. Page 30 - last two lines : "shoveled into the ground at Potter's field." Very inaccurate ; a corpse is too big to shovel handily. WM. E. CLARK...