Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 62
... called detective - stories , save by the loosest interpretation . Indeed , as there were no detectives in the world until the dubious reformation of Eugene Francois Vidocq , the French police spy , who founded the world's first ...
... called detective - stories , save by the loosest interpretation . Indeed , as there were no detectives in the world until the dubious reformation of Eugene Francois Vidocq , the French police spy , who founded the world's first ...
Page 245
... called " Only the Beginning . " The fiery destruction foretold in the old Latin hymn , " Dies irae , dies illa , ” had come upon the earth at last , and a young man and a girl who had met for the first time on a deva- stated beach that ...
... called " Only the Beginning . " The fiery destruction foretold in the old Latin hymn , " Dies irae , dies illa , ” had come upon the earth at last , and a young man and a girl who had met for the first time on a deva- stated beach that ...
Page 264
... called her Min ; not for minnow , as you might think , but because that was the name of a girl he had once known . What Mrs. Peabody called her is part of the book , also . Whether you regard the story as a poignant al- legory of man's ...
... called her Min ; not for minnow , as you might think , but because that was the name of a girl he had once known . What Mrs. Peabody called her is part of the book , also . Whether you regard the story as a poignant al- legory of man's ...
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