Word: secondhands
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...Tennessean entered the morning newspaper field against the Nashville American- nearly a century old and an Institution there. We of the newly-born Tennessean never knew the connection, but nevertheless our Tennessean presses (they were secondhand) mysteriously developed sanded bearings and delivery of the newly-born newspaper child was delayed unaccountably. We Northerners weren't any too popular either...
...nosing around among other people's works to finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans of Literature published last year, is an enthusiastic notebook proclaiming the virtues of some of his favorites. St. Mark serves gusty Author Rascoe as a peg on which to hang his theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Rome. Not Petronius Arbiter but his more rapscallion son, thinks Author Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon, earliest picaresque novel...
...London is full of boats, secondhand Buicks, and bouncing college girls. The Sound is the playground of sybarities. Stretching off to Long Island, the shoreline follows the water as a wet garment clings to the firm sweet limbs of a girl and the little line of foam, milky in the moon, decks her with lace...
...them paraded one evening in quiet order up Pennsylvania Avenue. The discipline at "Bonus City" continued good, despite the fears of alarmed Washingtonians who helped to spread unfounded Red scares. Crude shelters were built from old lumber, packing boxes and scrap tin, and thatched with old straw. Several hundred secondhand Army tents were provided. Company streets were laid out. Latrines were dug. Regular formations were held daily. Campers were organized for field sports to keep them out of mischief. Newcomers were required to register after proving that they were bona fide veterans with honorable discharge papers. A military morale permeated...
...Orrtanna. Pa., Father Will Whalen saved $60 by buying a secondhand tombstone, having the inscription chiseled off, his own name cut in its place. Said Father Whalen: "I'm used to secondhand stuff...