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...quot;Wicked" Hearst. All these manifestations were simply the performance of a master journalist-showman run away with by his own technique. Strangely mingled in Hearst were patriotism, the sense of power and a desire to sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own stories, songs, guitar, clog-dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic...
Candidly Dr. Ditmars remarks: &#quot;Abstract theorizing is not in my line. I deal with the animals themselves. . . . But I can't resist observing that much of the man-monkey relationship is based on feeble arguments. ... I think that it is the inconsistency in monkey psychology and ability that undermines his position as man's ancestor more than anything else...
...quot;People of France," wrote exiled Editor Daudet, who once escaped from La Sante prison through a hoaxed release order telephoned from the office of the Minister of the Interior, "-People of France, how much longer will you permit such ignorant deputies to represent you before the world? Here are 28 of your elected representatives, and they actually believe there is a Kingdom of Poldavia, and that Lamidaeff is its Foreign Minister. Lamidaeff...
...usual, most of our knowledge must come from the secret archives of the university; but the manner in which we first got on the trail of the Qua Quan Quot was peculiar, not to say gruesome. I was digging on the edge of the eliff overlooking the Urubamba Canyon when my pick struck on a rock that rang hollow. By careful investigation, I finally discovered the entrance to a cave, halfway down the cliff, and almost inaccessible from above. My adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped...
...each of these standing figures, but clad in less distinctive garments, were other figures, in the act of kissing the bare feet of their superiors. From my reading in the records, I was able to identify these figures at once, by their insignia, as members of the Qua Quan Quot. Later our geologist explained that the men had evidently been mummified or petrified by the sudden explosion of a liquid used by the Incas for brilliant illuminating effects, such as red and green lights. The gas thus created, combining with a rocksecretion of volcanic origin, was enough to account...