Word: flyleaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mississippi's Ross Collins seized the occasion to recall that once when he needed a Biblical quotation for a speech, he borrowed a Bible from the late devout old Congressman Ackerman of New Jersey. On the flyleaf was written: "I had this Bible in my pocket when I went up with Lindbergh...
...volume is a Latin Bible, octave in size, bound in black, and was printed in London in 1580. On its flyleaf is the inscription: "John Wilson gave this Bible to the Library of Harvard college in New England, anno...
Happy Major Hume uncovered the flyleaf of the book in his hand, read: "Index-Catalog of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library), Authors and Subjects, Fourth Series...
...before Christmas Eve the President gave a holiday to his clerical staff. To each clerk and stenographer he presented a book, with his autograph on the flyleaf. Next day he entertained, first, the families of his chauffeurs and mechanics, then the families of the White House domestic staff. All children under 15 received their gifts from the President himself. That night, true to family tradition, he read A Christmas Carol aloud to kith & kin. Just before he put out the light to go to sleep he saw nine socks and stockings hanging over his big bedroom fireplace...
...Even so, such tags provide interesting material for a study of the times." The tutor idly leafed a copy of "Dichtung und Wahreit" which belonged to the bedraggled sycophant. "Just as these strange inscriptions will interest the historians of two thousand years from now. From this flyleaf they will reconstruct a picture of Professor "Waltz," smoking an unusual under-slung pipe and wearing a hat as he lectures on the Sesenheim idyll. And perhaps correctly they will surmise that the student was bored and undutiful, since he filled the cover with diagrams of football plays...