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 21
... hands on ! " That was in 1817. In the winter of 1840 , when Napoleon was disinterred and returned to France for final ... hand for the spec- tacle that cold morning in December - the dead em- peror on his bier and the flippant young ...
... hands on ! " That was in 1817. In the winter of 1840 , when Napoleon was disinterred and returned to France for final ... hand for the spec- tacle that cold morning in December - the dead em- peror on his bier and the flippant young ...
Page 69
... hand on the arm was black - the hand of a gorilla . This black hand , together with memories of Poe's ' Murders in the Rue Morgue , ' and of another story of West Africa that I had read as a boy , became woven together and emerged ...
... hand on the arm was black - the hand of a gorilla . This black hand , together with memories of Poe's ' Murders in the Rue Morgue , ' and of another story of West Africa that I had read as a boy , became woven together and emerged ...
Page 185
... hand to mouth existence of a Grub Street hack , and he was not prepared either by ex- perience or temperament , Johnson argues , for the demands made on him when he became a vogue . Editors took advantage of the poor fellow's need by ...
... hand to mouth existence of a Grub Street hack , and he was not prepared either by ex- perience or temperament , Johnson argues , for the demands made on him when he became a vogue . Editors took advantage of the poor fellow's need by ...
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