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Scythe and all, John Death comes to Dodder with a parchment signed in flame ordering him to unclay Joe Bridle and his truelove Susie Dawes. Death drops the parchment by Joe Bridle's pond; Joe hides it under his shirt. At a loss for once, Death rents a house in Dodder to await the discovery of his parchment, or new orders from above...
Speaking of the ceremoniousness of the Japanese, Professor Kennelly said: "At one university a half-holiday was taken in order to make me a member of the Electrical Engineers of Japan, and I was presented with a large parchment scroll in a beautifully ornamented wooden box." The interviewer then had the pleasure of seeing the scroll and its box and several other articles which had been presented to Professor and Mrs. Kennelly on their departure. Among these were two bamboo slide-rules with 19 scales on each of them, made with the finest precision...
...said might have won first place had she not exceeded the time limit and been stopped by a whistle blast. Winner was Robert Gibson Rayburn, 16, of Newton, Kan. Tall, redhaired, Orator Rayburn spoke in a low. quiet voice. Excerpt from his oration: "The ink on the parchment where the Constitution has been engrossed for years is faded, but if it has been written in letters of living light, this country will march on through the ages, with the sun over its head and the pure blood of an enlightened citizenship surging high through its veins...
...three large sheets of parchment Dr. Albert Einstein had written a summary of his relativity theory to date. An anonymous donor bought it, valued at $25,000, presented it to Yale University. The presentation was formal, with Dr. Einstein present, at the Manhattan bookshop run by Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, daughter of the late Sportsman-tycoon Payne Whitney, and Mrs. Josephine Dodge Kimball, daughter of Marshall J. Dodge. Dr. Einstein forthwith sailed on the Deutschland for Germany...
...less than 13 times. In every case it is easy-going old Colonel Braxton ("a mind on him like a whip, suh!") who does the calling. Nothing fools him. He can get to the bottom of a murder, forgery, theft case by glancing at a pane of glass, a parchment, a piece of poplar wood. If you are tired of new-fangled fiction-detective methods, if you still have a warm spot in your heart for the school of Sherlock Holmes, you will give Colonel Braxton your friendly attention. Otherwise do not bother...