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...were laid three pennies and six pennies and bright, new shillings, and upon them were piled up the fat Christmas raisins, prunes and French plums. Over all was poured a bottle or so of brandy and trie lamps were turned out while a responsible uncle put a match to it-and the fun, the rather terrifying fun, began! The leaping thin flames, blue and yellow like wild pansies, turned the laughing players into a shifting, shrieking, witch's circle ... a whirl of darting hands and skirls of laughter and pain. . . . Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport...
...stopped. Artist Fisher had indicated clearly that it was a city, not a town. He had indicated, moreover, that it was a city noted as a cotton center. That was what Little Jeff was going to investigate-cotton. Artist Fisher had named the city, too. "Greenville, N. C.," he called it-and that was why Mr. Timmons' face had grown stern...
...lonely unless I receive at least once a month another news story about the discovery of the 'Lost Art of Hardening Copper.' I keep these stories tacked above my desk and seldom lack fresh copy. But since copper can already be hardened as hard as anybody wants it-and much harder than was possible through the use of the one alloy known to the Ancients-the reason for this dazzling payment [of $1,500,000] remains as obscure as the name of the company...
...first being allowed by a kindly director to have her fling before settling down to a good, but humdrum, existence. This story of a French girl, who works out her salvation by posing for the Madonna and acquiring some of her spiritual quality, might be effective if Charlie Chaplin directed it-and somebody besides Viola Dana played the role. But Lew Cody, Monte Blue and Marjorie Daw help very much in this story, which is The Miracle reversed...
...thinking. That is all he has ever done, and now he wants a rest." The Sun and The Globe dug up a story about a girl: "As he talks to associates in radical circles Sidis sometimes takes Miss Foley's picture from his pocket and looks at it-and then he smiles...