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...this Gerard interview was only a prelude to a week replete with attacks on methodical bears. A few days later Law yer Gerard declaimed that shortselling is illegal because it is gambling, is as bad as setting fire to property. "It is selling something which the seller has not got and which he hopes to buy at a lower price, that lower price being made possible by the mere fact of the sale. . . . The result is that the stock which the small investor bought on margin ... is actually used as a club against...
...many of the autographs of film stars, not that I deserve it-but it is an indication that the American public does not desert its sport idols altogether. And another, thing! Nearly every speed cop when he catches up with a speeder asks "Hey, d'ya think yer Barney Oldneld?" That is, of course, when they're not askin': "Whezdafire, huh?" and "Wher' th'lya goin'?" You know me, BARNEY OLDFIELD...
...deal wi' me as severely as ye like," retorted the Scot, "put that in yer pipe and smoke...
...failure to appear, wrecked vengeance on a Massachusetts regiment on its way through their city. Harper's Weekly printed a full-page series of cartoons showing a grotesquely night-capped and bewhiskered Lincoln sitting up in bed while a lackey shouts: "The Blood tubs are after yer!" Lincoln replies, "Run-no-nev-a-r-r let 'em shoo-o-t." Finally, attired in his Scotch cap and long military cape (misconstrued as a disguise) "Abe" retreats over the back fences. He boards a train which takes him to the White House, where he is presented to President Buchanan...
...Lord Stevenson was a bad yin. I see ye dinna owerleuk him in yer last issue. He was anither o' thae Ayrshire Yokels. He gaed tae the same schule as I did masel'. I wunner what Jix was thinkin' o' himsel', addressin' the like...