Word: flyleaf
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...Even so, such tags provide interesting material for a study of the times." The tutor idly leafed a copy of "Dichtung und Wahreit" which belonged to the bedraggled sycophant. "Just as these strange inscriptions will interest the historians of two thousand years from now. From this flyleaf they will reconstruct a picture of Professor "Waltz," smoking an unusual under-slung pipe and wearing a hat as he lectures on the Sesenheim idyll. And perhaps correctly they will surmise that the student was bored and undutiful, since he filled the cover with diagrams of football plays...
...Conductor Theodore Thomas who had commissioned it for the Philadelphia celebration, but to a German bank, there to be held until the $5,000 was deposited. The few tender passages Wagner interpreted as being "the beautiful and accomplished women of America joining in the festival procession." The flyleaf of the score bears the note "Dedicated to the Women's Centennial Committee by Richard Wagner...
...nice and necessary gesture on the back flyleaf "the author joins with the publishers in congratulating S. A. Jacobs; who designed the format of Eimi, solved all technical problems connected with the typesetting and printing, and from start to finish personally supervised this book's production...
That in 1901, at Dundee, John Wendel gave him a book. The Blockade of Phalsburg, on a flyleaf of which was a will making him, Morris, sole heir to John Wendel's estate...
...Marshall Harlan, shrewd young attorney for the Wendel estate, went to work on the Morris claim. He tore it to shreds. Publishers of the Bible from which the "1876" marriage license blank was torn testified that it could not have been procured earlier than 1913. Handwriting experts showed the flyleaf will to be a bungling fraud. Contemporary evidence proved that Mr. Wendel was not in Dundee in 1901 or in Manhattan in 1906. On St. Patrick's Day, 1908, Claimant Morris was working in an Arizona copper mine. In 1909, said Pullman Co., the Buffington had not been built...