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...destiny." Whether or not Author Lewis wrote his introduction with his tongue in his cheek, the stories that followed it, with but one shining exception, proved to be long-winded and mechanical, written according to the narrow formula of popular magazine fiction. Examples: ¶ A small boy petted a kitten, thereby causing a barber to give an executive a silly haircut, the executive to lose a job, a business to fail, a revolution to break...
...told ad-readers all about its signal system. Baltimore & Ohio dramatized its operation in a series of adventures (all with happy endings) involving personnel and passengers. Chesapeake & Ohio shrewdly publicized itself as the road surveyed and "founded" by George Washington, made a brilliant paragraph of advertising history with its kitten "Chessie" snugly tucked in a berth ("Sleep Like a Kitten...
...guillotine), the Mexican manner (shooting), the Persian manner (interment), the Abyssinian manner (dismemberment), the Japanese manner (decapitation), the British manner (gallows), the U. S. manner (lynching). Amid the welter of dead and dying, more gentle readers will find relief in such shots as those of a cat carrying her kitten across a traffic-jammed city street; the Catholic Shrine at Lourdes; a swarm of locusts in Kenya Colony...
...more room available in the body of the vehicle. . . . This gives a much better art possibility for appearance than the old-type car. . . . Sweeping lines can be run clear from the front to the rear-no projections, no bumps, smooth contour, and the sleekness of line of a purring kitten...
...some impulsive gesture of affection or the kindling of her expressive face to some enthusiasm. She made the most diverse impressions upon people met casually and for a short time. She was beautiful, with eyes that changed their expression from that of a falcon to that of a kitten. They were strange, hazel eyes, full of valor." Having accused him of selling his country's military secrets to Germany, the officers of the French Army in 1894 handed an obscure Jewish captain named Alfred Dreyfus a pistol, told him it was the officer's way out. Captain Dreyfus...