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...Invert There isn't any Invert...
...perfection of "dry ice" belongs largely to Chemist Pierre E. Haynes, now with the Dry Ice Corp. of New York. General Carbonic and Liquid Carbonic are other corporations now making "safe dry," a form of "dry ice," which became a commercial product in 1925. To make solid carbon dioxide: invert a tank of liquid carbon dioxide under pressure, open the valve. The sudden lessening of the pressure causes the liquid as it squirts out to turn part cold solid, part...
...then, does this modern realism sell? The public pays to be castigated. It prefers castor oil to Coca-Cola. Perhaps this realism is a sort of invert flattery. Everyone sees Babbitt in his neighbor. Nobody sees Babbitt in himself. That is highly satisfactory...
Since every generation has declared its Hamlet the best, are we to be left behind? Of course not! We bring out the old phrases used by our ancestors and invert the predicates, arranging the whole with a clever and unequalled style, so as to give zest and originality to our praise. But we have more than one Hamlet; therefore we shall have something to argue about after disposing of the Hamlets of history...
...receiving it from His Majesty, probably placed it among her perfumed volumes never to be opened. There is another book which I know must have been opened and not only opened but read "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Who ever read that book? Boswell, and we believe he actually did invert a bottle for three nights successively in the hope of driving away a wart...