Word: pickwick
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...promptly ushered into the study. After brief greetings Sir Ronald handed Statesman Stimson a heavy brown envelope tied with blue cord. Inside, the brawny Briton explained, was another note from His Majesty's Government on War Debts- a note, he estimated, "about as long as the Pickwick Papers." In triple-spaced typewriting it covered 26 foolscaps, on the first of which was embossed a large lion & unicorn...
...style, all the fine drama, all the able characteristics of his more well known works. As for Hugh Miller he has played with Sir Herbert Tree and all the satellites in the English heaven. A short while ago the Vagabond saw him as Jingle in Pickwick and he will personally guarantee any Dicken's performance Mr. Miller sees fit to give...
Then Scholar Price recalled how in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers the famed Club was hoaxed. Samuel Pickwick unearthed a stone, found the inscription,"X BILST U M PSHI S.M. ARK." Much erudite discussion ensued, many translations were given. Tongue-in-cheek Author Dickens was guying scientific men. The translation was simply "Bil Stumps his mark...
...Pickwick Papers was published two years before the date on the Moundsville Stone, was doubtless the inspiration for the hoax. Hoaxes have included: Bureau of American Ethnology, Congress of Americanists (France), scores of scholars...
...airlines carrying passengers only lost money last year. Such operators have been hanging on with the sole hope of acquiring mail contracts. Last week Pickwick Latin-American Airways Inc. found its burden too great, suspended its service between Los Angeles, Mexico City and San Salvador. Other U. S.-Mexico airlines: Compania Mexicana de Aviacion (subsidiary of U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, Inc.) and Corporacion Aeronautica de Transportes ("CAT lines") which connects with domestic routes at El Paso and Brownsville...