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...eloped with a scalawag and Mason's career started with his son-in-law's murder. Almost up to the end he kept his pose of being a respectable, peaceable man, but robbers in those days had to be killers. To make sure he got the credit, Mason would scrawl his signature in his victim's blood...
...huge prices by museums, enthusiasts, tycoons the world over. Often he is acclaimed a Master; "it is even said that soldiers of the Red Army stand as guards of honor before his paintings in the Soviet museums." Yet many a purchaser has been puzzled at heart by the scrawl of a cadaverous bull, the entirely blue circus-rider, the patchwork of pasted cloth, cement, brickdust he has bought. And many a student has sought passionately to copy the processes-"researches," "experiments"- by which Painter Picasso attains undeniable effects. Hence many an "ism," including most of Cubism...
Glancing at the picture of the tablet before him his printer's eye vaguely detected the date Oct. 14, 1838, worked into the scrawl. Closer inspection ingenious juggling, deciphered the writing, "BIL STUMPS STONE...
Thus the students bend their efforts to inventing all sorts of asinine diversions to keep their minds free from any contaminating book knowledge that might interfere with their word slinging exercises in which they patiently scrawl out words and phrases to fill more than one examination book, wherein possible...
...until 2:15 p. m. did Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio scrawl his signature for the 138th time onto the final document giving the very last parcel of Tacna to Peru...