Word: seitel
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Many a compositor and newsman keeps a scrapbook of the most devastating misprints that come to his eye, most of them unreprintable. But few collections, if any, can rival that of Louis N. Seitel of the Brooklyn Public Library who with serious purpose for ten years has combed books as well as periodicals for errors of fact, expression and typography. His trophies number about 10,000. Typical "howler" in the Seitel collection: (from Short Stories of Soviet Russia) "Then, above his eye, a fish flashed out and broke his teeth...
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