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...Bon Ami. For 40 years the chick on the brownish wrapper of a cake of Bon Ami (cleanser, polisher) has not scratched. Nor has it cheeped about profits. William Hamlin Childs started his Bon Ami Co. in 1886. He is chairman...
...night writing pot boilers, immersed in smoke, eclipsed by coffee. Perhaps "La Menage de Garcon" was one of the potboilers. One of the better potboilers. One cannot be sure when he sees the novel through at least three mediums plus Otis Skinner. "The Honor of the Family", born a bon mot, dies a cliche. One must, however, respect the dead. Mr. Skinner, Miss Jessie Royce Landis are very kind pall-bearers. But why the funeral...
...Chamber, fired by M. Jaspar's eloquence, frightened by the catastrophic fall of the franc,* sunk its party differences and all but unanimously voted dictatorial powers upon a man indisputably above parties, "Le bon Roi Albert, pére des Beiges." The Senate unanimously confirmed the Chamber's action...
...Miss Jameson is that she belongs to that widening circle of young Britishers who have fallen into the habit of calling a spade a double-blank, worm-turning, corrupt appendage of his Satanic majesty. Some call it the return of Elizabethan zest, all this hardriding, goddamning and firing of bon-mots that whiz like shells by night but look like duds in the morning. Caroline, the female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows of us all." Another young lady is directly addressed by a term seldom heard outside the dogshow...
...always the same. One after another of the men quit his station by the steps to follow Cartrack. So a long file of solemn marchers were soon in her wake. Main Street in Charmington became for a few minutes a primrose path to an everlasting bonfire, and the bon fire was the rage of Cartrack, damned by religion, damned...