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Among the short and violent episodes which supplied the spice to Bisbee's colorful career, a few stand out prominently. Early this fall, Bisbee was seized by an over-powering passion to write lyrics. Answering an add in Motion Picture Magazine, he wrote, "I have been thinking about composing a peppy, collegiate song with a racy, ha-cha-cha chorus." Almost immediately he received a reply from Henry Cohen, chief of staff, to the effect "whether you write for play of pay, you are to be encouraged because it shows a lofty thought...
...pickle has a pecular mordant quality which distinguishes it from all others. The chief ingredient is unwashed English, chopped, and broken, and bruised with a brazen instrument. Then work in chips and fragments of cynicism the seven cardinal sins, the 'Civil Service Regulations,' profanity, the Southern Cross, and genius. Spice with a Tipperary brogue...
Tales of treasure-hunting, of Tomacito, a New Mexican Thumbling, of drunken burros, spice the book. More sombre are the tales of disappearing Amerindian tribes and customs, but they are stoically told. The Zia Indians, in their decay, became so poverty-stricken, so skinny, that other Indians called them the "hungry ones." The "hungry ones" called back: "Fat Indians dance slowly...
Foods, not tung oil. were Mr. Bennett's first interest. Fie was manager of Woolson Spice Co. when the Havemeyer interests bought it in 1899. He went into the brokerage business, then in 1907 organized F. H. Bennett Biscuit Co. At the time he had not heard of a tung tree, nor of the rich oil its walnut-like nuts yield. But in 1905 seeds for the first tung tree in the U. S. had been brought from Hankow and planted in the Department of Agriculture's experimental farm at Chico, Calif. In 1907 seeds were also planted...
...those who are wont to season the morning's meal with the Attic salt of the Vagabond brace themselves for a more pungent spice today. For this morning the Vagabond is not Touchstone but Hamlet; the cap and bells are put away, and sables are the wear. A great man is passing from our midst: at nine o'clock this morning in New Lecture Hall, Professor C. K. Webster is delivering his last lecture before leaving Harvard College, and the Vagabond would give him homage and Godspeed...