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...When I visited Detroit two years ago new Fords were to be seen at every turn, almost on every second block. . . . Observation [now] revealed that relatively few were in evidence, and hardly a brand-new specimen...
...Specimen manipulations of the vernacular by Author Taylor...
...character's mouths. From Mr. Browning's: "Woof! Woof! Don't be a goof!" From Mrs. Browning's pet African honking goose: "Honk! Honk! It's the bonk!" The Graphic started a "Woof! Woof!" contest-$1 each for "just little nifties" about the Brownings. Specimen: "Woof! Woof! Daddy Browning, real estate operator whose heart is rent." Graphic headlines: "PEACHES'S SHAME STORY IN FULL," "RAH, DADDY! HAIL, PEACHES!" There were semi-nude pictures of one Marion Dockrell, "female Oom," cult leader admired by Mr. Browning. Inane attention was paid to Mr. Browning...
...youths of the decades preceding the "Gay Nineties" passed their scholastic careers in a state of idyllic "purity", let him read the following passage from the May 19, 1877, edition of "The Cambridge Chronicle" which a curious Crimson reporter unearthed to the everlasting shame of Harvard men. Called "A Specimen of College Morality--Cat and Dog Fight Last Sunday--Where were the Police", it throws light upon the pranks of those days when college boys were college boys...
...Irish Rose is forsaken for the sublimity of saintliness. Therefore, the lines are written in blank verse, a special musical accompaniment is provided to exalt them still higher. Unfortunately, the play, weighted down by heavy-handed craftsmanship and uninspired poetry, ascends to nothing loftier than pompous platitudinousness. Specimen of the verse: "a magnificent flood of mothers' milk." Sam Abramovitch might as logically have been Hans Schneidewind but for the local box office...