Word: dobson
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...living persons. But there were gaps, notably on the subject of the new United States of America. Although the Salem witch trials were discussed, the American Revolution was not; Boston was mentioned, but there were no articles on New York or Philadelphia. An enterprising American publishing pirate named Thomas Dobson corrected these slights when the third edition began to come out in 1787. Rewriting sections offensive to the U.S., and omitting the word "Britannica" as well as the dedication to George III, he hijacked and printed Encyclopaedia articles as fast as Bell and Macfarquhar could put them out. Plagiarism plagued...
Died. Sir Max Beerbohm, 83, dumpling-shaped British wit, drama critic (The Saturday Review), caricaturist and satirist (Zuleika Dobson), last of the Victorian elegants; in Rapallo, Italy. One of literature's most modest, sparing and delicate talents, "the incomparable Max," as Shaw called him, belonged to an age of posturing geniuses and aesthetes (Burne-Jones, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Whistler, Oscar Wilde), was one of them but not one with them. With a few deft strokes of his caricaturist's drawing pen, he could put the lucubrations of a giant into gnat's perspective and keep the world...
...Chicago (Dobson) 3, St. Louis...
...Chicago (Dobson) 9, Detroit...
...pitching out of the staff as a whole. It led the league in strike-outs (774), held the opposition to the lowest composite batting average (.238), and had the league's second-lowest earned-run average. The staff's main supports: Bill Pierce (15-12), Veteran Joe Dobson (14-10), Saul Rogovin (14-9), Reliefer Harry Dorish. "We kept the nucleus of this good staff," says Richards, "and made it stronger with trades." One trade, with Washington, brought him young (21) Cuban Mike Fornieles, who pitched a one-hitter against the A's in his major-league...