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Pizened Sausages. Finley Peter Dunne's fictional humorist, the Irish bartender Mr. Dooley, imagined the scene when President Theodore Roosevelt first read The Jungle: "Tiddy was toying with a light breakfast an' idly turnin' over th' pages iv th' new book with both hands. Suddenly he rose fr'm th' table, an' cryin': 'I'm pizened,' begun throwin' sausages out iv th' window." Author Sinclair lunched at the White House with T.R., though presumably not on sausages. The President later wrote Sinclair's publisher: "Tell...
...searching thou shalt finde that the workes of many brave men are buried in oblivion . . . though part of those workes have escaped, the wracke of the rest have perished in the Gulf of time, which hath swallowed the best of many men's endeavours. -17th century Hudson Bay Explorer Luke Foxe...
Then we shook hands, and Wallace said, "The Harvard Crimson. The Haaaaarvard Crimson. Now isn't that a fine name? Th' Haaaaarvard Crimson. 'Crimson,' now," he said, his brow furrowing, and his hand still holding onto mine in a dying hand-shake, "that...
...support from students on all th' campuses...
Barrault's removal set off a chorus of protest by French stage figures and critics. Nearly half of Barrault's actors vowed to quit the Théâtre de France if he decides to form a new company of his own. Meanwhile, the Odéon is deserted. Only an occasional patrolling gendarme walks its stage...