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Local police demanded yesterday that editors of "i.e., the Cambridge Review" remove their advertisements from lamp posts and subway stations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'i.e.' Must Remove Ads From Subways | 3/17/1955 | See Source »

...Emersonian uplift and self-seeking self-reliance, and the hard-driving spirit of commerce in all things. But Melville will not stop until he can debunk the goodness and glory of God. In a final episode, an old man sits reading the Bible by the light of a solitary lamp. A young sharper (not the confidence-man) exposes the old man's imperfect faith by selling him a lock and a money belt, and giving him a counterfeit-detector as a bonus. The confidence-man gently chides the old fellow, "since in Providence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Misanthrope | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...similar richness of wording when she says: ". . . the lamp chimney around the urged-on lamp flame itself, spurting threads of itself and smoke stinkingly upward toward the ceiling, crimsonly stuttered inside the gloom it made like an evil tongue...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A World of Love | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...Papa, it's so late," said Dumas fils. "And you've been traveling eight days." But they went, roused Gautier and gossiped till 4. Finally they headed for home on foot, and Dumas pere never stopped talking. When they arrived at 6, Dumas pere immediately demanded a lamp. "A lamp? But why?" asked his son. "To see by, of course. I am going to get to work." Forthwith he started on The Garibaldians and another novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The First Bestsellers | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...shmoky ol' lamp wuz burnin' bright In Finnigin's shanty all that night- Bilin' down his repoort, wuz Finnigin- An' he writed this here: "Musther Flannigan: Off agin, on agin, Gone agin.-Finnigin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Birth of the 84th | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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