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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... happen to have a first edition in your attic , it is worth a lot of money . Jonathan Swift , the great Dean of St ... happens to be annoy- ed with his fellow men . Anatole France has some- where said that , when man has failed , perhaps ...
... happen to have a first edition in your attic , it is worth a lot of money . Jonathan Swift , the great Dean of St ... happens to be annoy- ed with his fellow men . Anatole France has some- where said that , when man has failed , perhaps ...
Page 45
... happening in stories , and it always hap- pened on New Year's Eve when it didn't happen on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas . It was one of the grand old " situations , " and I miss it . But I don't miss it much . A better story , I think ...
... happening in stories , and it always hap- pened on New Year's Eve when it didn't happen on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas . It was one of the grand old " situations , " and I miss it . But I don't miss it much . A better story , I think ...
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... happen and on the writer's making him feel , if not actually be- lieve , that they can but should not happen -a mas- terly dictum . It was Sir Thomas Browne , I think , who said that while he did not believe in ghosts , he was afraid of ...
... happen and on the writer's making him feel , if not actually be- lieve , that they can but should not happen -a mas- terly dictum . It was Sir Thomas Browne , I think , who said that while he did not believe in ghosts , he was afraid of ...
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