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 36
... favorite quiz program , I wonder , suddenly asked to say what occurred on Christmas Eve , in the year 1456 , would be able to dredge up the answer . On that pious occasion , nearly five hundred years ago , one of the great poets of the ...
... favorite quiz program , I wonder , suddenly asked to say what occurred on Christmas Eve , in the year 1456 , would be able to dredge up the answer . On that pious occasion , nearly five hundred years ago , one of the great poets of the ...
Page 61
... favorite specimen of wit is a Harvard dean's definition of a bachelor of science degree : " It does not imply a knowledge of science , " said the dean . " It merely implies an ignorance of Latin . " His favorite bit of satire is the ...
... favorite specimen of wit is a Harvard dean's definition of a bachelor of science degree : " It does not imply a knowledge of science , " said the dean . " It merely implies an ignorance of Latin . " His favorite bit of satire is the ...
Page 258
... favorite child , and his name is David Copper- field . " I have often wondered whether it was by ac- cident or design that the initials of his favorite child were his own reversed . To be sure of immortality and to be mistaken is ...
... favorite child , and his name is David Copper- field . " I have often wondered whether it was by ac- cident or design that the initials of his favorite child were his own reversed . To be sure of immortality and to be mistaken is ...
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