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Brands & Salt. Around mid-October, after Sylvia had wet her bed, Mrs. B. ordered her to sleep thereafter in the basement on a pile of filthy rags, along with the family's two dogs. Later, according to Hobbs, Mrs. B. told Sylvia, "Now I'm going to brand you." A three-inch sewing needle was heated with matches and, Hobbs said, "Gertie started putting words on her, but she got sick and told me to finish it." Etched in two tiers of inch-high block letters across Sylvia's lower abdomen, the words said...
...letters from Wuthering Heights to Yoknapatawpha County. Reason enough to exhume the hoary old horror and reissue its haunting license. But there are still better reasons. In the game of suspense, Mistress Radcliffe can tease with the best of them, and in the art of natural description she can pile a crag or plummet a chasm with any man short of Scott himself. True, the dear lady is one of the ickiest prigs who ever put quill to scented paper. Yet if in 1794 her virginal vaporings came on as symptoms of high sensibility, in 1966 they come...
...anniversary of the Easter Rebellion, someone grandly pulled down (or, more literally, blew up) the top half of Lord Nelson's 134-ft. monument in the heart of Dublin. As W. B. Yeats predicted in his poem Easter, 1916, "All changed, changed utterly." Lord Nelson lay in a pile of rubble on O'Connell Street. Said the Dublin police, scarcely concealing their admiration: "An absolutely expert...
...believed Inventor Bert N. Adams in 1939 when he came out of his Queens Village, L.I., kitchen with a battery that seemed to revolutionize the original electrical "pile" devised by Alessandro Volta in 1796. Inventor Adams ultimately won a U.S. patent-and then the U.S. Government itself copied and repatented his battery without paying Adams a dime. Last week the Supreme Court not only agreed that Adams' battery met the U.S. patent test of being new, useful and "nonobvious"; by a vote of 7 to 1, the court also made clear that Adams' patent had been infringed during...
...page ninety-eight of the South Carolina state history text is a picture of a young Negro boy sitting on a pile of cotton and eating watermelon. The caption under the picture reads: "This is a Negro child...