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...senses-of a hypothetical pedestrian passing with his head down and his own worries in an interval of about ten seconds. On Fifth Avenue this has led to glamor plus novelty. Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-máché, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl...
When most of his 200 reindeer shed their antlers aboard ship en route to Seattle, he equipped them, with papier-mâché antlers. Later, as head of the Philadelphia agency of Union Central Life Insurance Co., he raised his office in two years' time (1935-36) from 24th to second place among the company's 80 agencies...
Clephane's group had been trying to cast type from papier-mâché matrices indented by mechanically assembled characters. First big improvement suggested by Mergenthaler was to cast the type directly from an indented, metal matrix. Then, in an inspired moment, Mergenthaler conceived the idea of a freely circulating matrix which was brought into line to cast its character, returned to a magazine until needed again. To make the lines "justify" (i.e., come out even), wedge-shaped spaces were spread between the words...
...Navy Yard with a bottle of Mississippi water which she smashed over the bow of the New Cruiser New Orleans (TIME, April 24, 1933). This week, from the balcony of the Boston Club, Queen "Coco" will watch R. E. ("Rube") Tipton, steamship agent, proceed down Canal Street on a papier-mâché throne at the head of the Rex Parade. In ermine cloak and rhinestones, she will rise and stand with outstretched arms as Rex rides past, drinking her health in champagne...
Unmoved by Dickens' crocodile tears, Biographer Kingsmill applauds his comic vein to the echo, calls The Pickwick Papers "his greatest book and the finest example of comic impressionism in our literature." He sniffs at Dickens' "Bravery" in championing social reforms, says his dragons were papier-mâché bugaboos: "He was one of those reformers who attack with public opinion behind them, and are rewarded with an increase in their wealth and popularity. He was not one of those reformers . . . who run counter to public opinion and are put in prison and ruined." Kingsmill states his whole...