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...papers used phrases unknown in the 18th Century ("frontire spirit," "race hatred"). Horn's ancestors showed themselves ignorant of the Julian calendar, which was universally used in their day. Horn's maps and court dockets bore a 19th Century watermark and were written with a metal pen and in blue-black ink, unknown until 1836. The documents had been "aged," said the committee, probably with ammonia. As for the lead marker plates, the expedition's director admitted that Horn had found them himself, when the director was away. They, too, were fakes: metallurgists said the 18th Century...
...marriage, founded on a slip of the pen, somehow survives years & years of dull quarrels, lots of showy New Zealand background, one of the jolliest earthquakes ever filmed, a rip-roaring attack by Hollywood Maoris (who all seem to be named "Hemo"), and the limited advances, with flaring nostrils, of Mr. Heflin, who cherishes quite a yen for his business partner's wife...
Animal Kingdom. In Hastings, Neb., a coyote squeezed through an opening into C. A. Nelson's chicken pen, dined so well that he trapped himself. Off Folkestone, England, Saltwater Fisherman Charles Darby pulled in his line, unhooked...
...they turned the vellum pages of temes such as the Temptation of St. Anthony or the Holy Book, Medieval monks were accustomed to jot personal commentary in the margins. Nowadays Karl Marx is more likely to provoke similar notation from the pen of Widener students...
...seventh day, a game didn't seem official without Casey trudging unhurriedly in from the bull pen. Big Hugh Casey, who weighs 219 lbs. and runs the Dodgers' favorite beer parlor in Brooklyn, is a man of immense calm. There were often men on bases when he came in; but Casey had a tavernkeeper's instinct for quelling disturbances. He pitched in six of the seven games (another record), won two of them, saved another...