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...specimen of the descriptive prose be here entered: "The March wind staggered about the Concord house, striking at doors, shaking shutters. By its sound you knew that it smelt of melting earth and sticky buds. Inside was a dingy, not unpleasant taint of coke burning in the Franklin grate, and a lingering fragrance of dinner . . . ticking clocks, the reptilian hiss of fire, and without, the scampering wind...
...reporter had gone to interview Professor Brues at his home in Forest Hills, and there sitting in the living room before an open fire which was roaring in the grate, Professor Brues outlined the work which, up to the present, he has been doing...
TIME is rapidly usurping the place of The New York Sun as a newspaper man's newspaper. All the more reason, then, to avoid expressions that grate on a newspaper man's nerves...
...course Congress will feel that something has to be given everybody. It is quite possible that there may be no reduction whatever in inheritance taxes against which the Progressives are violently opposed. But the Treasury will doubtless ask all that it wants and a bit more, and be grate ful for whatever concessions Congress grants...
...20th Century came and eternal harmonies continued to vibrate in the mind of the Bishop. He could not fully utter them. His talk became a little wild. Men did not love one another utterly. His talk became wilder, and began to grate upon vestrymen and other bishops with bank accounts. At a general meeting, in Boston, he was nearly mobbed. Finally his health broke, and in 1912 he resigned, went to live in Galion, Ohio, the Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, ex-Bishop of Arkansas...