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...priest, one by one, filed Russian musicians, waiters, bus boys, cooks and, in white chef's garb, Spiridon Ignatovich who used to cook for Tsar Nicholas II. Each kissed the priest's crucifix, each received on the forehead a dab of holy water from a long black brush. Finally the Rev. Vasily Kurdiumoff marched around La Maisonette Russe brushing it liberally with the holy water...
With the whiskers of the Negus we will make a little brush to polish up the boots of Benito Mussolini...
...methods and economics in snow disposal came to the fore as was the case last winter when the "University Special" tractor appeared on the concrete paths of the Yard one night with its rotating brush whisking away a light snow fall...
...Louis Lively, mulatto brush-maker who had the habit of cutting little girls' throats, was trapped when Detective Parker noted that Lively always used the same type of false tips to mislead police...
...Visible only under a microscope is the smallest inscription in the world, 127 let ters of a verse from St. Luke, written by Ox Fibre Brush Co.'s president. Alfred McEwen of New York. Latest McEwen handiwork in the collection is 294 letters of the Lord's Prayer done with a one-hair brush in a space no bigger than a hole made by a needle...