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...most ambitious fantasies, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, led one critic to assert that he "expressed the terror and the evanescence of the world of phantoms, with a power unequaled by any painter that ever lived." His Nightmare (in which a luminous horse's head thrusts between a sleeping lady's bed curtains) was reproduced everywhere, became almost as well-known as Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Even to William Blake, who had ten times his genius and only one-tenth his contemporary reputation, Fuseli...
...lavender or rose leaf) commonly used by sufferers from asthma or catarrh. Said London's deluxe tobacconist, Alfred Dunhill: "No self-respecting smoker would smoke a herbal mixture." But thousands of Britons were mixing the sweetish stuff with their pipe tobacco; it cost only fourpence an ounce, about one-tenth of the price of tobacco...
Dalton, who likes a cigar now & then, lectured the House of Commons and the nation on the dollar evils of smoking too much. Britons had spent a whopping ?603,000,000 on tobacco last year; it was almost one-tenth of the national income.* Said Dalton: "We are now smoking one-third more than before the war. About 80% of our tobacco is imported from the United States . . . and we are drawing heavily and improvidently on the dollars which we earn with our exports. . . . The whole total of our exports to the United States at this time barely exceeds...
...days, it is cut another 25%; after 24 days, another 25%. If the article is not sold in 30 days, Filene's gives it away-to a charitable organization. But charity gets little: the bargain basement sells 90% of its merchandise the first day. Only one-tenth of 1% lasts long enough to be given away. Instead of creating a "wait-for-a-lower-price" policy, the system fans a "get-it-before-it's-gone" fever...
...Hutterites prepared to move to the U.S. where there were already colonies in South Dakota and Montana. But others, who still had some hope of democratic treatment at the hands of fellow Canadians, got ready to fight back. They argued that their holdings, 41 acres per head, were only one-tenth as large as their neighbors'. Said bearded Hutterite Peter Hofer: "We cannot live unless we get more land...