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Every age has its mythology, and the nearest approach to the genuine in modern times is in thumb-nail accounts such as this. As ancient myths grew in the telling, so do their modern counterparts, and such phrases as "We" gather about themselves a wealth of imaginative color. But also, as the ancient myths came to be liberally disproved, so are modern ones likely to fall, the most recent casualty coming with the reported statement of Col. Lindbergh that "We" did not in reality refer to himself and his plane. But, also like older myths, present ones are not easily...
...pushers. The Exhibition began when some Indians, who were really porters and ticket takers on the Baltimore & Ohio, went whooping loudly past the grandstand. Then came stage coaches, one of which had been lent by Comedian Fred Stone. Then, on the loop of tracks, came a reproduction of Tom Thumb, the first of all steam engines, driven by an imitation of its inventor (Peter Cooper), dressed in breeches too bright for a hard-working engineer. After this a proud little ponyish Yorkshire engine that panted first in 1831 puffed slowly down the tracks. The General was there, an engine...
Other people urged Mr. Barnett to do kindly deeds with his money when they found that he was careless about putting his thumb print on pieces of paper. There is an undated letter now in the possession of the Department of the Interior, bearing Mr. Barnett's thumb print, which proposed to donate $1,000,000 for a hospital in Henryetta, Okla. Also, Mr. Barnett's benevolent thumb gave $550,000 to the American Baptist Home Mission Society for the benefit of poor Indians...
Soon Mr. Broun wired the news paper that he was "on strike" and ceased writing on any topic. Mr. Broun contended that "If I do not thumb my nose at the World's pet projects,"* he should be allowed freedom in his column. The World said No; said that in the reader's mind whatever he finds in a newspaper he credits to that Coolidge newspaper. says in "Did the you see World...
...Malloy, 19, walking to church, spied and picked up a small disc that bulged in the middle. During a Methodist-Episcopal service he amused himself by picking and stabbing at his curious treasure with his pen knife. His inattention bothered no one until Blam! off blew Picker Malloy's thumb and forefinger...