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...Omnivorous and insatiable, [Picasso] helps himself, without scruple, from every pot in turn. Such are his abnormal digestive powers, that after only partial mastication, he will regurgitate each exotic titbit in a form but slightly distorted in the process ... A wily gastronome, he knows what's good...
Just the kind of publicity-making titbit the committee wanted was turned up by a York telegraph official who testified that one Charles E. Small, purported signer of a protesting telegram to Pennsylvania's Representative Haines, had been dead for two years. But two days later A. G. & E. got more & better publicity by producing a fresh letter from Charles E. Small to Representative Haines. Wrote Mr. Small, father-in-law of an A. G. & E. plant superintendent: "I wish you to know that I am the man that is supposed to be dead, who wrote you and wired...
...rich larder of documents, reports, memoirs, novels on the War and its aftermath which future historians must digest, a new titbit was added last week. William Randolph Hearst's able, convivial...
...Augustus." Col. Lindbergh said: "It was a mishap, not an accident." Miss Morrow, perhaps without realizing it, gave out a long-sought-after titbit of news when she said: "Augustus will speak...
...mere announcement that this informal group exists stirred up such a news flurry that the tycoons, cautious, kept their intentions secret for most of another week, while news-starved correspondents were fed titbit after titbit about what the group was preparing to do. Meanwhile Mr. Morgan ran over to London, as he said, "for a cup of tea"; and various other delegates paid flying visits to their homes. When everyone had gotten back from wherever he had gone...