Word: samuels
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...hundreds of thousands of people, either in its various parts or in its entirety, and some readers may have printed hard copies (even decorated them like medieval monks illuminating manuscripts, for all I know), but mostly it's just an electronic mirage floating out there all by itself, like Samuel Coleridge's stately pleasure dome, with no printing costs, publisher's cuts or agents' fees to pull it down. Advertising aside (I did some, not much), costs are low to the point of nonexistence, and the profit potential is unlimited...
...most beautiful lines in English literature gets at this idea. It's from a poem by Samuel Johnson...
...Forced to choose between competing slates of electors for Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, Congress drafted an electoral commission made up of five senators, five representatives, and five Supreme Court Justices. The Justices were divided two to a party with one centrist, Joseph Bradley, who stayed up all night praying, went Republican down the line, and the rest is history...
...creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.O.P. archaeologists. The law was written about a decade after the last truly chaotic American election, the Rutherford Hayes-Samuel Tilden race of 1876, when Hayes became President after the wheeling and dealing of competing slates of Southern electors...
Colt Revolver Samuel Colt...