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...Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became an Abolitionist. Instead of eulogies from the critics he got rotten eggs and catcalls, more than once had to drop his dignity and take to his heels. Of his anti-slavery poems Biographer Mordell says: "They...
...MYSTERY OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY-Edgar Wallace-Crime Club ($2). Stranglers work in Mark's Priory. Scotland Yard Boys Tanner & Totty clip the fiend at the end of a red scarf trail...
...Tipp Topp, Great Dane. When he reached the museum, Champion Ador Tipp Topp was treated as his predecessors were and his followers will be. He was carefully measured and sketched. Then Mr. Morrill smeared his head with vaseline to get a plaster cast. Next he was skinned. While a tanner prepared the skin, the museum's osteologists cleaned and set up his skeleton. Meanwhile, Taxidermist Morrill made a burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist glued the tanned skin, sewed up seams, inserted made-to-order glass eyes. After a little further...
Passengers were unanimously enthusiastic about their experiences. Among them was Mrs. Clara Adams, rich and inveterately aeronautical widow of a Tannersville, Pa., tanner. She had been the first paying woman passenger on the Graf. She flew to Rio de Janeiro for the trip back aboard the DO-X. Said experienced Mrs. Adams: "You could hardly tell you were flying. The noise of the motors did not intrude unless you opened the port holes. Vibration also was notably absent. The cabins were spacious and comfortable...
...Tannersville Mrs. Adams is considered something of a character. She is supposed to have inherited a considerable fortune from her husband, George L. Adams, a tanner. She owns several automobiles, yet is frequently seen walking the nine miles between Tannersville and Stroudsburg, or hailing motorists for a lift. Tall and lean, she dresses plainly, wears cotton stockings. She plays the piano with exceptional skill, is locally famed as a china-painter. During the War she was under surveillance as a pro-German, suspected of being a distant relative of General Erich Ludendorff...