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Destiny is a strange thing. For some men it flows evenly, broadening like a river. For others it expands like a gas. If the expansion is hurried there may be an explosion and a man's career will settle to earth in floccules of soot...
Manhattan's Bowery is a slum of light and sweetness compared to London's drab East End. Mist from the Thames and smoke, soot-laden, wrap the long Limehouse streets in a depressing pall of grey. Vice in the East End is as commonplace as elsewhere, though perhaps a bit more furtively unclean. Yet East End squalor has its attractions for aristocrats. Smart Londoners go there occasionally, as do Manhattanites to Harlem's "Black Belt." Blue-blooded Socialists like Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, dabble there in soapbox oratory.* Thither, for an escape from...
...inspector appeared several days ago, according to J. F. Brady, janitor of the dormitory, and examined the clouded corridors, the mauve bed-spreads, and the soot-stained porticos of the dormitory. His attitude was non-committal but he ventured the statement before leaving that ordinances against soft-coal smoke had been seldom enforced since the recurrent coal strikes of the past few winters. He has not been seen since...
Priestley did not know what he had made when he heated red oxide of mercury with a burning glass and collected the atmosphere caused by the process. He labored under an old notion that combustible substances had a constituent, "phlogiston," which departed from them when they burned (as soot, for example). Thus, when he found that a candle burned more brightly, and mice thrived, in the atmosphere created with his container of heated mercuric oxide, he thought this atmosphere was "dephlogisticated air." Fortunately, while touring Europe with a patron, he met the Frenchman, Lavoisier, and told him of his experiment...
...notes and spun tales at lunch hour. It lost him his job, but the fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains. Once he had to climb up through a 120-foot chimney on a bet and fight a man when he came down groggy with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came to the U. S., painted scenery in the Astor Theatre. In 1906-07, three Manhattan publishers turned down The Broad Highway, most of which was written in a dismal, rat-run studio on Tenth Ave. He nearly...