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 45
... remember rightly , " Come In , New Year ! " It involved a New Year's Eve custom , in some part of New England , that ... remember everything up to the opening of the door and the strange entrance ; but for the life of me I can't remember ...
... remember rightly , " Come In , New Year ! " It involved a New Year's Eve custom , in some part of New England , that ... remember everything up to the opening of the door and the strange entrance ; but for the life of me I can't remember ...
Page 69
... remember that your mother always was afraid of turtles . Suddenly you read that an old bachelor friend of yours in Phila- delphia is going to marry a girl you never heard of ; and there's your novel all ready to be written . All you ...
... remember that your mother always was afraid of turtles . Suddenly you read that an old bachelor friend of yours in Phila- delphia is going to marry a girl you never heard of ; and there's your novel all ready to be written . All you ...
Page 205
... remember them , of course . In book and play , although influential persons of the tale , they are just names on the lips of others -Mrs . Harris a sort of springboard for Mrs. Gamp's commendatory observations on Mrs. Gamp ; Mrs. Grundy ...
... remember them , of course . In book and play , although influential persons of the tale , they are just names on the lips of others -Mrs . Harris a sort of springboard for Mrs. Gamp's commendatory observations on Mrs. Gamp ; Mrs. Grundy ...
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