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...rills of New England, accompanied by two or more large, barking, shaggy dogs. Verbose, clever, dynamic, Cortland Bishop has vast enthusiasms; it is now his plan for the indefinite future to build, upon one of his properties in Manhattan, an art auction gallery that will enable him to surpass Christie's in every detail and thus to secure for U. S. collectors some of the great paintings that have hitherto escaped them...
Governor Bilbo well knew that of all the states, only two?neighboring Louisiana and proud South Carolina?surpass Mississippi in illiteracy...
Shrewd though modern debt and interest reductions have been, no Secretary of the Treasury will soon surpass the feats of little-remembered Secretary Benjamin Helm Bristow who, despite the panic of 1873 and with 5% and 7% Civil War loans outstanding, negotiated fresh loans in 1874 at 3% and refunded part of the debt...
Silk Legs is a technical term for those grotesque and abbreviated limbs on which stocking drummers display their flimsy wares. The drummer in this case is Madge Bellamy, and as such she is successful enough to surpass the sales records of her rival who is also her lover. Actress Bellamy, moreover, is herself a not unsatisfactory stuffing for cloaks, suits, stockings...
...attempt to amaze the reader with its culture" he is making a low bow in the direction of the stables of Pegasus. The insinuation, obviously enough is to the effect that in spite of Rockwell Kent and a highly developed aesthetic complex the Hound and Horn has yet to surpass the oldest of college publications...