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These two leaves were obtained by soaking apart the bindings of an old book. This pasteboard binding had been made by glueing together odd pages, two of which were the rare old leaves now on exhibition. The leaves were used for binding because they contained errors, as was discovered by comparing them with corresponding pages of Latin editions of the same text-book for which they were intended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREASURE ROOM SHOWS VALUABLE BIBLIOPHILIA | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

...Joseph J. Muir, Senate chaplain, gave the blessing. Deep-voiced John C. Crockett, reading clerk, was toastmaster. James D. Preston, genial superintendent the Senate press gallery, announced the arrival of the world's largest underslung pipe, six feet long, made of pasteboard. "What mal it smell so bad?" chirped an insolent page. Investigations reveal a copy of the "Senate Rules with Dawes' Amendments" (the amendments shot full of holes). From the bowl of the pasteboard pipe other gifts for the Vice President emanated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...performance of "Die Walkuere", on Saturday night, with Jeritza doing some remarkable galloping over the pasteboard mountains of the Metropolitan stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/22/1926 | See Source »

...Criss-Cross) : "From Greenville, Ohio, I received a heavy brown pasteboard box, which I carried to the stage of the Globe Theatre, Manhattan, and opened in the presence of a notary public. It con tained several scrapbooks, with clippings, photographs, letters and a typed autobiography up to 1890 of my late friend, Annie Oakley Butler, ablest markswoman in history, who died last month (TIME, Nov. 15). There was no letter of explanation but it seemed apparent that Annie Oakley, with whom I played in a circus some 20 years ago, wished me to be her Boswell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...former figure of $3 and are now commanding $5. This raise in prices did not affect undergraduate applications for single seats the price to students for each of these three games being set at $2 for the first seat, and then either $4 or $5 for each additional pasteboard, depending on whether it was for the Dartmouth, or the "Big Three" games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticket Applications Up to Mark In Spite of the Advance in Price | 11/3/1926 | See Source »

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