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Reversible. In Birmingham, England, Ernest Abrahams sold his raincoat to an acquaintance, stole it back, sold it to a secondhand-clothes dealer, stole it a second time, finally settled with a judge for a ?2 ($8) fine...
Even the Irish have never made much of their own art; James Joyce once called it the cracked looking glass of a servant. The fashions of London, Rome and Paris were often reflected, secondhand and second-rate, in Irish painting. This week a Manhattan gallery exhibited the work of twelve Irish painters, who reflected not Europe but Dublin, the ragged hills of Connemara and the midlands around Tullamore...
...where he was about to commit his bare foot, when his reveries were interrupted by a stealthy knock at the door. "It's open," he purred, in the renowned mellow 100 proof tone, as a mufflered figure sidled in, peering in both directions over the upturned label of a secondhand Brooks Brothers overcoat...
Personality out of Prejudice. Author Sartre concludes his essay with a few sharp words directed at those who are merely "prejudiced" against Jews. Such "secondhand anti-Semites," he avers, tend to feel that way because they feel very little else: anti-Semitic prejudice "allows them to assume the appearance of passion...
Washout. In Casper, Wyo., seekers for secondhand bathtubs sought out the wrecker of a 56-room hotel, found the hotel had been bathless...