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Gumshoe Scholar. Proceeding like a scholarly private eye, Wahlgren got in touch with J. A. Holvik, professor emeritus of Norse at Concordia College. Moorhead, Minn. Holvik went to the Ohman farm; which now belongs to Olof's sons, and made a copy of the old man's scrapbook. He also learned that Ohman had owned a Swedish encyclopedia...
...cousin of Elsie Dinsmore-it far oftener has its penalties. All but vanished are the things that really make Bleak House notable-its satire on the Court of Chancery, its vast, varied, odd-lighted picture of London. An imposing novel and a great portrait gallery have become an agreeable scrapbook and an amusing one-man show...
...sent a copy of the paper's constitution and told to puzzle it out for themselves. This idea rode high until an editor remembered that there happened to be only a single copy of the constitution, and that that copy was pasted into an ancient scrapbook in which all editors since 1904, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and James B. Conant, have signed their names...
...This morning I looked through my husband's earliest scrapbook, and I found the clipping with its date, Jan. 18, 1926. This indicates that I placed my first subscription during the year 1925, under my maiden name of Alfrida T. Kramer...
...sitting for days on a 13-inch disk atop flagpoles (his record: 49 days and one hour on a pole on Atlantic City's Steel Pier in 1930); of a heart attack, while walking on a sidewalk with a relief check in his pocket and a scrapbook of old press clippings under his arm; in Manhattan...